Epson stylus color 740 Printer
 

At the begining localhost:631 would refuse me,so I started looking around and the advice I found was to uninstall cups and all its files and folders so that I did.I reinstalled cups and gimp-print and tried again using kde's wizard and my printer is there [usb] the driver I have used before is there,looks good,but still will not print,I looked for cups in dmesg and I don't see it starting.What should I try next,thanks david

chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.cups
/etc/rc.d/rc.cups start

Browse to http://localhost:631, login with root password
Add a printer class, add a printer then choose epson gimp driver for color 740

No such file or directory,I tried it from / I can see it,it is a shell script.thanks

From which command do you get this output please ?

david@thrasher:~$ su
Password:
root@thrasher:/home/david# su
root@thrasher:/home/david# cd
root@thrasher:~# chmod +x /ect/rc.d/rc.cups
chmod: cannot access `/ect/rc.d/rc.cups': No such file or directory
root@thrasher:~#

install cups package so.

[edit]
just an idea : have you a file named rc.cups.new in /etc/rc.d directory ?

O.K thanks
No just the /ect/rc.d/rc.cups

Do you know where I can find it?

You have it (rc.cups) so try to do the steps I mentioned and see if it works...

Same thing,wonder why It won't show up,I'm lost!
I right clicked on the file in konqurer and I can view the permissions?

No pages at http://localhost:631 ?

I go throught the whole setup,seems ok to me,but I can't start cups same thing no /ect/rc.d/rc.cups when I try to start it,I'm new at this so bear with me,thanks again keefaz

It is simple, on a terminal, type :

chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.cups
/etc/rc.d/rc.cups start


[edit]
Hey ;) my mistake (stupid typo error), it was /etc directory not /ect of course

david@thrasher:~$ su
Password:
root@thrasher:/home/david# cd
root@thrasher:~# chmod +x /ect/rc.d/rc.cups
chmod: cannot access `/ect/rc.d/rc.cups': No such file or directory
root@thrasher:~#

Yes, it was wrong directory name, see my edit above

Da,well I did that but still can't print at localhost,have to go out,I'll try later,thanks again for your help,could be the driver?

comprookie2000: I notice you misspell "etc". Make sure your spelliing is correct.

Ok I did
chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.cups
/etc/rc.d/rc.cups start
cups: started scheduler.

Then went to localhost and set up my printer but it still will not print.

Can you tell us what you do to try to print. If you're doing it from an application, check if the output is to the cups spooler.

I just try to print a text file in my home dir,the driver it says it is using is EPSON CL-700 cups+gimp-print v4.2.7 sending it to the printer.this is a different driver than I use in debian,I think I am close just missing something.I haven't booted in over a month,do I need to reboot to get cups started.When my prenter works it will startup when I boot other dist.If I don't hear it starting it won't print.Thanks again david

You don't have to reboot. Did u try to print the test page using the web interface? It's a good point to start :)

When I tried to print a test page at localhost I checked Jobs it says error client-error-not-possible?

Printer

Default Destination: home

home EPSON Stylus Color 740 - CUPS+Gimp-Print v4.2.7
Description: Epson stylux color 740
Location: USB
Printer State: idle, accepting jobs.
Device URI: usb://EPSON/Stylus%20COLOR%20740
home-20 Test Page root 15k cancelled at
Thu Jul 22 23:02:33 2004
home-21 Test Page root 15k cancelled at
Thu Jul 22 23:04:20 2004
home-22 Test Page root 15k cancelled at
Thu Jul 22 23:13:59 2004



Copyright 1993-2003 by Easy Software

Try: chmod a+x /etc/rc.d/rc.cups

then try a test page. Watch your spelling...

No Luck,I booted into debian and checked the settings and tested worked great only difference was the driver was 4.2.6 and this one is 4.6.7 the only other thing was there for location ipp://thrasher:631/printers/home and here http://localhost:631/printers/home?

If you haven't rebooted, try restarting cups:

killall -HUP cupsd
/etc/rc.d/rc.cups restart

Then try a test print.

I tried to add your epson printer in cups, I end with this adress for printer :
usb:/dev/usblp0 but as I haven't your printer I can't configure deeper.

There is a command line to manually add printer to cups (require that you figure out what device in /dev your usb printer use):
/usr/sbin/lpadmin -p Stylus_Color -E -v printer_device -m stcolor.ppd

(Type it as one single line)

ID Name User Size State Control
home-2 Test Page root 15k aborted Something is stoping it from connecting to the printer Could it be in fstab?
Also it is /dev/usb/lp0
here is /dev/fstab
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/hda6 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

try as root :
/usr/sbin/lpadmin -p Stylus_Color2 -E -v /dev/usb/lp0 -m stcolor.ppd

Then from a text editor, try to print and select Stylus_Color2 as printer.

david@thrasher:~$ su
Password:
root@thrasher:/home/david# /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p Stylus_Color2 -E -v /dev/usb/lp0 -m stcolor.ppd
lpadmin: add-printer (set device) failed: client-error-not-possible
root@thrasher:/home/david#

Do you have espgs package installed ?

Try with :
/usr/sbin/lpadmin -p Stylus_Color2 -E -v usb:/dev/usb/lp0 -m stcolor.ppd

Yes I installed the tar.gz yesterday everything seemed to go ok,no error messages during the install had some doing ./configure but make went through and make install did its thing.

What is your output for :
tail -50 /var/log/cups/error_log

You did it that was a success,thanks again,what should I do to save this wonderful printer?

If you're accesing your printer locally (it's connected to the same machine), why don't you use the local port ie: parallel:/dev/lp0 in your case it should be something like: usb:/dev/usb/lp0

hep, he said that his prob is fixed ;)

I know, just wondering... :)

Thanks again keefaz your the bomb works like a champ,david