Red Hat 8 & Epson Stylus Color 850

bigmista · 11-04-2002, 02:14 AM

I am running Red Hat 8.0 and I am trying to run the Printer Configuration tool. I follow all of the steps in the documentation but when I try to print a test page I get a pop up saying "There was an error trying to print the test page" and nothing else.

All of the connections are secure and i know the printer works under win2k but I can't get it to work with Red Hat 8.0.

Some one please help! I am very new to Linux.

Mista

pbharris · 11-04-2002, 08:35 PM

hi mista,
there are two options to use with rh8.0 - cups and lpd - do you know which you are using? i'll assume lpd because that is what the tool uses if memory serves. i have an epson 780 and it works nicely. be sure you restart lpd and save you changes!

bigmista · 11-04-2002, 11:45 PM

pbharris,

It is lpd. I tried restarting lpd and I still get the same pop up window. What else can I check?

Mista

pbharris · 11-05-2002, 05:27 PM

hello,
is this connected by USB or through the paralell port?

bigmista · 11-06-2002, 04:35 AM

The parallel port

pbharris · 11-06-2002, 07:25 PM

humm...well this should be trivial -

this is using gimp-print for a driver, right?
let make sure the lpd demeon is running - open a terminal (gnome-terminal, xterm, konsole...), you should be rooot, if you are not do a su - and enter root's password.

/etc/init.d/lpd restart

let us know what happens.

chanmy8 · 01-19-2003, 04:30 AM

hi,
i face the same problem.
I have tried what you mentioned and the respond is:

stopping lpd: [FAILED]
starting lpd:
2003-01-19-18:27:06.001 Get_Local_host: hostname 'localhost' bad [OK]

Any ideas?
BTW, I found that my linux always failed to stop lpd once shutting down.

Thank you