Re: Unidentified subject!

[Stewart Smith <stewart@flamingspork.com>]

You may be encountering the issue that I (and others) had with the 600
Color (also helped at least one person with a 740),

http://www.flamingspork.com/linux/doc/epson_printers.html

I have a script in /etc/init.d (and appropriate run level stuff) to do
this on bootup (included below). See the site for other people's
experiences. Yes, the web site needs updating - written in the days of
linuxppc 2000, and my email address on it is wrong :)

#!/bin/bash
 
case "$1" in
        start)
                echo "Setting up printer parameters.."
                stty 230400 raw -echo cstopb < /dev/ttyS1
                stty ixon ixoff < /dev/ttyS1
                ;;
        stop)
                ;;
esac


On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 04:21, Nathanael Hasbrouck wrote:
> All right, after a week of poking my brain has about had it. :^)  I'm trying 
> to get my Epson Stylus Photo 700 working with Cups, I'm running debian/sid 
> (mostly up to date) on and oldworld pmac, homebuilt kernel 2.4.23-pre5-ben0.  
> As far as I can tell, I've got Everything I Could Ever Need(tm) installed 
> (Cups packages, gimp-print drivers, ghostscript, foomatic packages, and 
> possibly more I've forgotten already) but I haven't been able to get it to 
> print properly.  It spits out numerous pages of what I assume is PostScript 
> interpreted by a raster printer without proper conversion, but I'm not sure.  
> It prints a couple few lines of random chars and goes to the next page.  I 
> haven't let it get beyond about four pages.
> 
> As far as I can tell, I have my printer settings ok.  My device URI is 
> 'serial:/dev/ttyS1?baud=230400' (printer port), with or without '+bits=8
> +parity=none+flow=soft', changing bitrates and such doesn't seem to do 
> anything. I've tried native cups driver, gimp-print ppd and foomatic 
> gimp-print/ijs ppd, from both the foomatic install and generated from 
> linuxprinting.org, and the gimp-print/stp driver.  I've also tried 
> configuring with Kprint, foomatic-configure, and the Cups web interface, with 
> pretty much the same effect, only very slight variations in output.  
> 
> I've also googled fairly extensively, and no one seems to know anything about 
> using the Stylus Photo 700 on a serial port.  Oh, and there aren't any 
> obvious errors in the logs that I could see, either; I do have it logging at 
> debug level (logs readily available if needed).  Anyone have tips to go on 
> from here?  What do I wack at next?  This is driving me nuts and I'd like to 
> make it work.  I hate to think about all this wrangling for nothing. :^)  And 
> sorry if I missed something obvious. (I really hope I haven't, it's bad 
> enough when it's just obvious.  It's worse when you've been racking your 
> brain the whole week and it's obvious. ;)  That said, I eagerly await any 
> tiny scrap of information you could possibly dig up that might help. :^)
> 
> NRH
>