foomatic fails

[Aristides Katavolos]

Dear Till,

Thank you very much for your prompt reply.

> > I am trying to install an epson EPL5800L printer on my recently installed kubuntu 8.04. I have followed the instructions in
> >   http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/Database/CUPSDocumentation
> >
> > but when I try to print a test page I get the message
> >
> > epson "/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed"
> >
>
> See Kurt Pfeifle's CUPS trobleshooting HOWTO, it especially tells you
> how to activate the debug mode of CUPS and how to find the origin of the
> problem then.
>
> http://www.cups.org/cups-help.html
>

I have followed this, modified the cupsd.conf file, but didn't get anything more detailed in the error log.

> In most cases it is not Foomatic itself, often this happens when
> Ghostscript crashes on bad Postscript, driver executables or libraries
> are not installed, fonts are missing, ...
>
> > I got the .ppd file by downloading
> > epsoneplijs-0.4.0.tgz from  http://sourceforge.net/
> >
>
> Are you sure that you have installed the full package and not only the
> PPD file?
>
Actually, I only copied the PPD file; I will now install the full package and get back to you with the results.

Thanks agian,
Aristides