configuration of a printer

[Manuel Arenaz Silva <arenaz@des.fi.udc.es>]

Hello,

I want to install an Epson Stylus Color 850 printer directly attached to
my machine (local printer). I have been looking at the
Printing-HOWTO-6.html that comes with the default installation of Linux
Debian 2.1 (slink).

After reading the introduction, I have tried to print an ascii text to
the printer but the systems gives me the following error:

no printcap for printer 'epson'
job 'cfA886cambados.des.fi.udc.es' transfer to epson@localhost failed

Despite the previous message, I have confiugred an /etc/printcap entry

epson:\
        :sd=/var/spool/lpd/epson:\
        :mx#0:\
        :lp=/dev/lp1:\
        :sh:

and I have also created the corresponding spool directory:

1058853    1 drwxr-sr-x   2 root     lp           1024 Sep 22 20:42
/var/spool/lpd/epson

What about the "lpd" daemon? The output of the command "ps aux | grep
lpd" is:

lp         161  0.0  0.6  1500   800  ?  S    13:23   0:00 lpd MAIN

So I suppose that the daemon is correctly installed and initialized. Is
that correct? Maybe that the error comes from the initialization of
"lpd"?

I have tried to configure this printer several times but I have always
obtained the same result.  I have also studied the questions and answers
about printer configuration that appear in the list, but even though I
have not been able to find the error.

I hope you can help me.

Thanks,

              Manuel Arenaz