Epson Scanner/Printer recognized but "not connected"

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Mon Dec 4 13:16:08 PST 2006


> Some days ago I updated cups to 1.2.6 (1.2.7 is not yet marked stable on Gentoo), and now my Epson Stylus Photo RX420 scanner/printer combo doesn't print anymore. Scanning works fine.
> I can install the printer without any problems, it is automatically recognized during installation, but when it comes to printing, no matter what, it doesn't work, not even a "cat file.txt | lpr".
>
> When accessing the cups daemon via webbrowser, cups starts processing the file to be printed, but complains about "Printer not connected; will retry in 30 seconds..."
>
> I switched to "debug" in the config, but that only flooded my terminal with debug messages within seconds. If you need some info of this kind just ask.
>
> One thing which looks somewhat weird is the URI of the printer:
> usb://EPSON/Stylus%20Photo%20RX420
> Before I reinstalled the printer, it was /dev/usb/lp0.
>
> I'm using the gutenprint 5.0.0 driver and a vanilla 2.6.18 linux kernel.
>
> I hope someone can give me some advice on this.

OK, using version 1.1.23-r8 (Gentoo version) works out of the box, 1.2.7 gives me the same problems as 1.2.6.
Anyone a clue?




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