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

[Thorsten Greeb]

Michael Sweet wrote:

> 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.
> 

Ok, seems to work. Thank you for your help...