Re: CUPS and Epson CX5400 Color Stylus Printer

["David A. Cobb" <superbiskit@cox.net>]

Mark Roach wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 20:24 -0500, David A. Cobb wrote:
>  
>
> > Running 'Sarge' with kernel 2.4.27
> > CUPS, plus the "ekpd" package from Epson.com
> > The printer is attatched to USB.
> >    
>
> I have this exact model of printer. All I have had to do to get it to
> work on multiple different systems is install the
> cupsys-driver-gimpprint package, and use the cups web interface to
> choose the "EPSON Stylus C80 - CUPS+Gimp-Print v4.2.6" driver.
>
> This gave me the following printers.conf
>
> <DefaultPrinter Stylus-Color-Series>
> Info Stylus-Color-Series
> DeviceURI usb://EPSON/Stylus%20CX5400
> State Idle
> Accepting Yes
> JobSheets none none
> QuotaPeriod 0
> PageLimit 0
> KLimit 0
> </Printer>
>
> I wouldn't try playing with the conf file though, just use the web
> interface. It has worked fine that way on Debian, Ubuntu, FC3, and SuSE.
>
> -Mark
>
>
>  
I posted my printers.conf above.  That now gives us three variants -- 
it's like having three watches that disagree!
Here's my cupsys drivers:
[11:36:42] bash3 $ dpkg --list 'cupsys*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: 
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  cupsys         1.1.23-3       Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - server
ii  cupsys-bsd     1.1.23-3       Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - BSD 
comman
ii  cupsys-client  1.1.23-3       Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
client pro
ii  cupsys-driver- 4.2.7-4        Gimp-Print printer drivers for CUPS
ii  cupsys-driver- 4.2.7-4        Gimp-Print printer drivers for CUPS
pn  cupsys-pstoras <none>         (no description available)
ii  cupsys-pt      1.2.4-3        Tool for viewing/managing print jobs 
under C
[11:45:04] bash3 $ dpkg --list 'cupsys-driver-gimpprint'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: 
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  cupsys-driver- 4.2.7-4        Gimp-Print printer drivers for CUPS



The assignment of DeviceURI comes from running lpadmin with a command 
line that's straight out of Epson's README.  Not that manufacturers 
always get it right!

--
David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate
"By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim: R.French, Tr.
Life is too short to tolerate crappy software!