Fedora Core 2 and Epson Stylus Color 900

Ryo-ohki cheselka at NoSpam.gmail.com
Fri Dec 31 21:52:30 PST 2004


Hello Everybody and Happy New Year!

I am using Fedora Core 2 with CUPS( see below).  I cannot
get the printer to print.  It seems that kudzu recognizes
it but the drvier is listed as unknown.  The only time I
have gotten it to work is by using "lpr -l" option to print
in raw mode an ascii file which was a black and white job.

# escputil -u -m 900 -i -r /dev/usb/lp0
Escputil version 4.2.6, Copyright (C) 2000-2001 Robert Krawitz
Escputil comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type 'escputil -l'
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type 'escputil -l' for details.

           Ink color    Percent remaining
               Black     11
                Cyan     69
             Magenta     69
              Yellow     69

# uname -a
Linux goma-chan 2.6.9-1.6_FC2 #1 Thu Nov 18 22:03:19 EST 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
# egrep -i cups /tmp/rpm-qa.out
cups-1.1.20-11.8
cups-libs-1.1.20-11.8
# escputil --identify --new --raw-device /dev/usb/lp0
Escputil version 4.2.6, Copyright (C) 2000-2001 Robert Krawitz
Escputil comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type 'escputil -l'
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type 'escputil -l' for details.

@EJL ID
MFG:EPSON;CMD:ESCPL2,PRPXL24,BDC;MDL:Stylus COLOR 900;CLS:PRINTER;DES:EPSON Stylus COLOR 900;

Excerpt from /etc/sysconfig/hwconf:
class: PRINTER
bus: USB
detached: 0
driver: unknown
desc: "Seiko Epson Corp. Stylus Color 740 / Photo 750"
usbclass: 7
usbsubclass: 1
usbprotocol: 2
usbbus: 1
usblevel: 1
usbport: 1
usbdev: 4
vendorId: 04b8
deviceId: 0001
usbmfr: EPSON
usbprod: USB Printer

Much Thanks!
Mike





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