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