Re: why cups so rarely works "out of the box"

[Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net>]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 10:03:25PM +0000, Clive Menzies wrote:
> On (11/02/05 15:16), Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> > Boy, I have to get in on this topic, too, as I have tried to setup my 
> > Epson Stylus CX6400 for weeks now and can't even get the KDE print 
> > manager to work.  
The cups print manager accessed at http://localhost:631 is great for all
routine things.  But you must have root priviledges or add yourself to
lpadmin group first.

[...]

That said, I have to admit to having an intractable problem with my
printer setup -- the same one that prompted my original post on this
thread.  I think it must be a filter problem rather than a cups
one.  Having "solved" it a couple of weeks ago, it has just returned and
I can find no way to solve it.  Once again the printer is printing pages
of garbage -- in fact i think they are the raster data that should be
being interpreted as graphics.  There are no error messages even at
LogLevel debug2.  

I am now looking for an alternative set of packages to replace cups 
and gimp-print, as many hours of effort have revealed nothing useful 
and I cannot print anything at all.   Can anyone suggest a more reliable 
choice of packages?.  I need at least to be able to connect an Epson C62
as a local printer on /dev/lp0 to a sarge box.  I am prepared to give up
on network access if necessary, just to be able to get hard copy again.
FWIW escputil has also become erratic, only succeeding in connecting
sometimes, though I cannot see how that can be from the same cause.

[I have already posted this question 6 or 8 hours ago in a new thread,
but it has not appeared on the list, so apologies if this finishes up
double posted.]

-- 
richard