Printer Problems

["Thomas H. George,,," <georgeacct@spininternet.com>]

I have three standalone systems all with cupsys, cupsomatic, cupsys-bsd, 
cupsys-driver-gimpprint, gimp1.2, gimp1.2-print and kdelibs3-cups:

   Debian Woody, 2.4.18 kernel with HP Deskjet 940c, Foomatic+hpijs     
(my daughter)

   Debian Woody,  2.4.18 kernel with Brother HL-730, Foomatic+hl7x0   
(my grandsons)

   Debian Testing, 2.4.20 kernel with  Epson Stylus Color 860, 
CUPS+GIMP-print v4.2.2-pre2  (mine)

The problem: Printing a simple ASCII file (printtest) from a terminal. 
The results of lp printtest are as follows:

       Brother HL-730:                                OK.  Prints the 
file with no problems.

       HP Deskjet 940c:                                 Ejects a blank 
page.

       Epson Stylus Color 860:    Nothing.  There is an error in 
/var/log/cups/error_log
                                                                   
(See previous posting, Gimp Print Problem
                                                                     
(for details.)

All of these printers print the test pattern from a terminal:

           lp /usr/share/cups/data/testprint.ps

All of these printers print perfectly from kde.

History:  I am weening my daughter and grandsons from Windows 98 with 
its perpetual problems.  I chose kde to give them something similar to 
Windows and this is when my troubles began.  I found I had to install 
cupsomatic and kdelibs3-cups get their printers to work.  This is fine 
since they never switch from X windows to a terminal but I do.  After 
dpkg --purge lprng, lpr, and magicfilter and installing cupsys-bsd I am 
able to use the Brother HL-730 but not the other two printers.

I would appreciate any assistance with this problem