printer problems
 

I have tried each one of the drivers included with RH 7.2 for my printer and still it doesnt work. I keep getting the same error message. The printer is an Epson Stylus 777. Any ideas?

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printer will work in / root....

but not anywhere else i.e /home /user etc


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What steps are you going through to setup your printer?

I used the printtool utility_

followed all the instructions and it worked in root.
but nothing happens when I run it from /home


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Try using kups.

Im sorry, what is Kups? Im new to linux but I am enjoying it and having much sucess, except for the printer. I will try printing in root.:smash:

kups is a GUI frontend for configuring a printer with CUPS. Think of it as like a printer setup wizard. It comes with KDE but you can still run it even if you use another DE/WM. You did install KDE and CUPS right?

Install CUPS and gimp-print, configure your printer by going to http://localhost:631 and select your printer model from the gimp-print drivers, you'll find that the gimp-print epson driver will give you better quality than the windows driver does.

printer problems
 

Hey, thanks for all of the advice. I cant find kups but I know it should be there because i installed everything for KDE that came with RH 7.2. Aussie, I cant connect to that link that you posted, I dont know why.:smash:

Now I got it to print but its spitting out page after page of text. All I wanted to say was "this is a test" I used Kword and hit print and I get solid pages of text. Looks like some kind of code. Something about prolog copywright trolltech? I hate to have to go back to ms just to print something, please help.
I'll have more dumb questions later

Start up the kde print manages as root, remove and re-add your printer, and test it again.

Still no luck. When I try to install gimp print I get this message, libncurses.so.4 is needed by gimp-print-4.2-1
libreadline.so.3 is needed by gimp-print-4.2-1
Where can I find these redources and what is the easiest way to get this thing up and running? I checked Red Hats site and they didnt have anything close and RPM find had some things that were close but not exactly the same file name. Why do I have to do this anyway. Please help. I know I must be close because the printer is printing, its just not printing what I want it to and once it starts it wont stop! Should I try a differant printer?






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Random text and spits pages, hummmm. sounds like either the printer driver or a bad Parallel port. Does 7.2 have printconf-gui?

Ive been using the printconf utility. I tried installing gimp print but got frustrated with trying to find all of the dependencies of the dependencies. I am realy going nowhere with this. Sorry but Im realy getting frustrated that I cant figure this out.

Ok, Im getting close, I did the print config again from scratch and was able to print the testimage. Now why wont it print a kword document?