Epson Stylus D88 Photo Edition
 

Hi, I've been given an Epson Stylus D88 Photo Edition as a present and I can't configure it with Suse 10.0, I've also had no luck using Knoppix 4.

The printer is a fairly new model and is not mentioned in Yast. I tried configuring the printer as an Epson New Stylus Photo Series as this seemed like the closet thing. When I try to print the test page the paper is fed through the printer and nothing gets printed.

The following is the dmesg output when the printer is plugged in
lsusb outputs:
I read at
http://www.linuxprinting.org/ppd-doc.html that the Windows drivers from the install cd can be used by unzipping the .exe file to get the PPD file. However when I tried this got loads of files but none had a .ppd extension.

Please can anyone help me or is it just a case of waiting and hoping that epson release the drivers

Thanks in advance

I'm reviving this pretty old topic because I have this Epson Stylus D88 printer and I can't make it work with Mandriva 2006. :(
I searched around the web and found this place: http://www.avasys.jp/english/linux_e/index.html where they have a driver that, according to what they say, works with C87, C88 and D88. I installed the driver for CUPS and followed the instructions in the readme to install the printer... everything looks fine except for the fact that it doesn't print!! >_< Nothing happens at all. I tried to look at Kjobviewer and I've seen that all the jobs sent to the printer get interrupted... the IPP report says this:

job-id
1
job-more-info
http://raiden:631/jobs/1
job-uri
http://raiden:631/jobs/1
job-printer-up-time
ven dic 30 23:59:24 2005
printer-uri
ipp://localhost/printers/EPSONStylusD88
job-originating-user-name
root
job-name
Test Page
document-format
application/postscript
job-priority
50
job-originating-host-name
localhost
job-id
1
job-state
0x8
job-media-sheets-completed
0
job-printer-uri
http://raiden:631/printers/EPSONStylusD88
job-name
Test Page
job-k-octets
964
time-at-creation
ven dic 30 23:58:43 2005
time-at-processing
ven dic 30 23:58:43 2005
time-at-completed
ven dic 30 23:59:00 2005
job-hold-until
no-hold
job-sheets
none
none
job-state-reasons
aborted-by-system

Any clues?
I never had to configure a printer so I don't know exactly what it's needed to solve the problem, sorry... if you need the output of some command or some log file, or whatever ask and I'll see.

I was supplied a D88 when I ordered a C86. In an attempt to avoid going through the hassle of returning it, I tried the Stylus Photo Printing System but without success, so in desperation I installed the printer as a plain C80 (the nearest-looking driver I could find), and it works fine! I'm using CUPS on Mandriva 2005LE, BTW

HTH

Thanks very much. I tried what you suggested, installing the D88 as a C80 and it works perfectly. I had previously tried using this tactic of installing it as another printer but I didn't know which one to choose, the most I got was a few noises from the printer but no actual output.

Thanks again for the help

I tried with c84 driver and works fine too...