epson worked, then didn't next day

[Till Kamppeter]

You need to set the device URI of your printer correctly.

Connect your printer, turn it on, and do

lpadmin -p Stylus-Photo-EX -E -v parallel:/dev/lp0

    Till

Lawrence Gran wrote:
> Another silly newbie trying to get linux to work.
> 
> I did print to this epson stylus photo ex connected by cable to parallel port the first time I tried it.  But after mucking about a few days, and loading emc2, it didn't go.  deleted and added it a coouple times.  Check printer and cable on another system.
> 
> Stuck.
> 
> Followed your suggestions about getting some information about the problem.  The information follows.  Please - what next?
> 
> 
> root at UbuntuGate:/etc/init.d# bash cupsys restart
>  * Restarting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd                         [ ok ]
> root at UbuntuGate:/etc/init.d# more /var/log/cups/error_log
[...]
> D [29/Nov/2006:15:37:35 +1000] [Job 9] envp[22]="DEVICE_URI=hp:/no_device_found"
[...]