CUPS is driving me crazy. I first tried to use CUPS last year on Mandrake. But I found that frequently things were going wrong, and the printer would start spewing out garbage. I would clear the /var/spool/cups directory, restart cups, and things would be all right for a little while until soon they went wrong again.
My printer is an Epson Stylus Color 800, which has been supported under Linux more or less forever, and even now it is mostly attached to an older laptop running Red Hat 6.0, because then it WORKS. Today I tried once again to install CUPS, this time under debian woody. Following the advice on linuxprinting.org, I am using the gimpprint drivers. No sooner had I started printing out my first document (from openoffice) than the printer stopped (one line was printed correctly). When I restarted the printer, there was nothing but garbage. Should I go back to lpr? Any other suggestions? CUPS has been so highly praised that I expected more, especially since Epson has such a long history of Linux support. Conrad ------------------------------------------------------ siisu:/home/conrad# dpkg -l '*cups*' '*foo*' gs enscript mpage gsfonts psfontmgr | grep ii ii cupsys 1.1.14-4.4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - server ii cupsys-bsd 1.1.14-4.4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - BSD comman ii cupsys-client 1.1.14-4.4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - client pro ii cupsys-driver- 4.2.0-4 gimp-print printer driver for CUPS ii cupsys-pstoras 1.1.14-4.4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - pstoraster ii libcupsys2 1.1.14-4.3 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - libs ii libqtcups2 2.0-4 Qt interface library for CUPS ii qtcups 2.0-4 Qt front-end for CUPS. ii foomatic-bin 0.20020408-4 Printer/Driver database and print system - b ii foomatic-db 0.20020408-4 Printer/Driver database and print system - m ii gs 6.53-3 The Ghostscript Postscript interpreter ii enscript 1.6.3-1.1 Converts ASCII text to Postscript, HTML, RTF ii mpage 2.5.1pre-6 print multiple pages per sheet on PostScript ii gsfonts 6.0-2 Fonts for the ghostscript interpreter ii psfontmgr 0.11.0 PostScript font manager -- part of Defoma, D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
