IPP + CUPS problem

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Tue Sep 28 04:57:37 PDT 2004


Tom Widauer wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> We have a Epson AL-C1900, connecting to CUPS via IPP. Now we are
> encountering some problems getting the beasty going. The main problem
> is, that Windows clients can only print properly, when they connect
> directly to the printer via IPP
> (http://printer:631/EPSON_IPP_Printer). Connecting to the printer via
> Samba or directly via CUPS (http://servername:631/printers/printer)
> will print, but there seems to be a communication problem between the
> printer and the client. What happens is, that the printjobs are not
> deleted from the print-queue and therefore blocking all successive
> jobs. Only manually deleting the jobs from the queue will fix the
> problem...until the next job is printed.
> 
> I have done a bit of research on the topic and found posts from
> others, that have encountered the same problem but so far, nobody
> seems to have had a solution for the problem.

This is STR #696 and appears to be a bug in the Epson implementation
of IPP (one job prints, have to cycle the power to print another).

You can use the "socket://printer:9100" device URI to work around
the problem until Epson does a firmware update.

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Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
Printing Software for UNIX                       http://www.easysw.com




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