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

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Mon May 16 06:12:17 PDT 2005


Thorsten Greeb wrote:
> 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!)

I've been working with someone with Epson's EITC division here in
the US.  So far we haven't made any progress since the problem only
seems to affect Epson laser printers (which are not sold in North
America...)  See STR #696...

> 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...

Yes, all of the Epson network interfaces support port 9100 as well.

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