CUPS and an Epson CX5400 on Debian

[Anonymous]

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> Hi,
> I'm running Debian 'sarge' - kernel 2.4.27
> cupsys 1.1.23-3
>
> My printer is an Epson CX5400 Color Inkjet multi-function machine on USB.
> I downloaded the epson driver and set up 'lpadmin' exactly as their
> readme directs,
> also, I've installed 'foomatic', and it also discovered the printer and
> recorded an entry.
>
> My /etc/cups/printers.conf is attached.
>
> Neither 'name' for the printer gives me the ability to print.  If I
> submit a job, I get back a job id,
> however nothing ever gets to the printer.  CUPS seems to believe the
> file printed successfully.
>
> There appears to be a disconnect between the parts that handle printing
> jobs and the parts that know the printer is out on the USB.  For
> example, the Epson status-monitor program "sees" the printer status and
> reports ink levels; if I turn the printer off it "sees" the
> communication failure.
>
> The kernel modules for the printer are somewhat problematic.  It's hard
> to know what state the driver thinks the USB is in.  By the end of
> boot-up, "lp0" is polling the parallel port -- which is empty.
>
> <blockquote source="file:///var/log/dmesg">
> usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
> hub.c: USB hub found
> hub.c: 3 ports detected
> usb.c: registered new driver usbkbd
> usbkbd.c: :USB HID Boot Protocol keyboard driver
> usb.c: registered new driver usbmouse
> usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver
> usb.c: registered new driver usbscanner
> scanner.c: 0.4.16:USB Scanner Driver
> usb.c: registered new driver usblp
> printer.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
> mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:04.0 to 64
> isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
> isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
> NTFS driver v1.1.22 [Flags: R/O MODULE]
> NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module  1.0-6111  Tue Jul
> 27 07:55:38 PDT 2004
> hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-1, assigned address 2
> input0: Microsoft Microsoft USB Mouse on usb1:2.0
> device-mapper: 4.1.1-ioctl (2004-04-07) initialised: dm-devel at redhat.com
> </blockquote>
>
> --
> David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate
> "By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim: R.French, Tr.
> Life is too short to tolerate crappy software!
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> # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.23
> # Written by cupsd on Sat Feb 12 13:13:40 2005
> <DefaultPrinter scx5300_5400s>
> Info EpsonColorStylus
> Location Beside the computer
> DeviceURI ekplp:/var/ekpd/ekplp0
> State Idle
> Accepting Yes
> JobSheets none none
> QuotaPeriod 0
> PageLimit 0
> KLimit 0
> </Printer>
> <Printer stylus_cx5400>
> Info EPSON Stylus CX5400
> Location USB Printer #1
> DeviceURI usb://EPSON/Stylus%20CX5400
> State Idle
> StateMessage Unable to open USB device "usb://EPSON/Stylus%20CX5400": No such device
> Accepting Yes
> JobSheets none none
> QuotaPeriod 0
> PageLimit 0
> KLimit 0
> </Printer>
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did you ever get that to work? cause I got the same problem as you.. help me out man!!