Epson Stylus CX6600

[Russbucket]

Roy Cole wrote:

>> Russ Fineman wrote:
>> > Brian did you ever get your printer working? I'm going out this
>> > afternoon and pick up a CX6600. Office Depot has them for $178. plus a
>> > $50. rebate. I'll let you know how the driver I downloaded works.
>>
>> I've gotten as far as (sadly) removing NetBSD from the print server and
>> installing Slackware 10 (painful, i cannot STAND linux) and i've gotten
>> PIPS built and installed.  i can add a printer, choose the CX6600 model
>> that is installed via PIPS, and i can attempt to print a test page.  it
>> then informs me that "Media tray empty!" and aborts the jobs.  the media
>> tray is not empty, and the control panel on the front of the printer has
>> nothing to say about the media tray being empty.
>>
>> other than that, it sees to work great.   ;)
>>
>> -brian
> 
> 
> Hi Brian (and others)
> 
> Just purchased Slackware Linux V10.2 and have a CX6600 printer as well.
> 
> Want to make my system work with this printe (home use) and running off of
> a USB port locally, not yet for networking.
> 
> Never done this as yet, either got a USB port working or loaded a printer
> of any kind.
> 
> I am a newbie to Linux.
> 
> How can you help?  What are the step by step procedures and or is there a
> Howto file I can bone up on to get going.
> 
> I have gone to the Epson site and downloaded the printer files for both
> CUPS and LPR, just to save time.
> 
> Regards Royski
I was never able to get the Epson printer files to work with SUSE 10.0. They
did work with SUSE 9.1. Iscan works file for the scannner but I also can
scan with kooka and xsane 0.991. For printing I finally installed
gutenprint 5.0.0-rc3. {download the tar file, then unpack it, ./configure,
make, make install} The final release is do soon. I use CUPS 1.1.23 for the
print spooler. I think there is a later version of CUPS but I have not
installed it yet. With CUPS and gutenprint be sure to follow the read me
files. Check all dependencies and make sure they are installed first if
they are not already installed. 

Once guttenprint is installed you can use CUPS to create the printer.
Following the Iscan instructions for installing it. Iscan can be downloaded
from the Epson site.

Only problem I'm having with the printer is the top margin size. On my
printer it start the page approx. 1 inch down, even with the margin set to
zero its down at least 1/2 inch. I am going to try a later version of
ghostscript as soon as I can get to it. I just need to do the make install
step. 

If I can help anymore let me know. I've only used Linux for a little over a
year, thats why I'm moving slowly installing ghostscript. I get some errors
about missing files, in the ./configure stage that I'm trying to figure
out.

Hope this helps you. 
-- 
Russ