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Re: USB Printer Problem



This one time, at band camp, Thomas H. George,,, said:
> I have an Epson Stylus Color 860 attached to a USB port.  I am using 
> CUPS and  cupsomatic-ppd.  localhost:631/printers shows Foomatic + 
> stp-4.0 and usb:/dev/usblp0.  When I try Print Test Page nothing is 
> printed and the /var/log/cups/error_log lists
> 
>    GNU Ghostscript 7.05: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
> 
> There are some earlier complaints that plain paper is not a valid 
> parameter of type media type and 360 is not a valid parameter of type 
> resolution.
> 
> The system is Debian Testing with kernel 2.4.20
> 
> This printer previously worked perfectly with CUPS installed from the CD 
> accompanying Michael Sweet's book.  I installed the debian cupsys and 
> cupsomatic packages as I want to use it with kde.  I downloaded the 860 
> drivers from linuxprinting.org.

You'll want to use the gimp-print drivers for cups - they work very
nicely with Epson printers.

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