USB Printer setup
I'm having some trouble setting up an Epson Stylus Color
880 USB printer on my linux system. I've compiled a new
2.4.17 kernel since the 'older' 2.2.x kernels do not have
much in the way of USB support without a patch (or so I've
heard). Seems to be working fine and my OHCI USB port can
detect and talk primitively with the printer (i.e. it shows
up in /proc/bus/usb/devices).
However I can't print. Tried using LPD and LPRng with
magicfilter and apsfilter but I'm not sure which filter
specifically is best with the printer. I doubt that is even
the problem since I can only get anything printed by using
'cat file.txt > /dev/lp0' when the printer is on the
parallel port instead of the USB. I tried a similiar
command with the USB and I get nothing. Has anybody
installed an Epson USB printer that can give me some
suggestions or pointers on what they had to do? Thanks.
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