[cups.general] Problem with Epson print servers and CUPS IPP

[Michael Sweet]

Thorsten Greeb wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we have a problem when printing to an Epson Aculaser via CUPS using
> IPP. The print job is correctly send to the printer but after printout
> it resides on the queue forever. This then blocks the whole queue and
> all following jobs remain pending.
> 
> We tested this with different versions of CUPS and also with an Epson
> Stylus connected to an external (Epson) print server.
> When cancelling the already printet job the next job is printed correctly,
> then the is queue blocked again.
> 
> This seems to be a general problem with Epson print servers and their
> implementation of IPP.
> 
> Any hints to get worked around this.

This is an IPP bug in the Epson firmware, but so far Epson hasn't
come up with a fix.

I recommend using the socket backend instead.

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