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

[Thorsten Greeb]

Michael Sweet wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 

Are they (Epson) aware of this bug and are they willing to correct this?
(Seems to work on Windows!)

Is the socket backend for direct printing over port 9100? Did not know
that the epson ps support this. Will try it the next days...

Thanks!

Thorsten