I have been having problems with printers in general with 9.0. I have a Stylus 777 (Epson) connected through USB. Sometimes PrinterDrake can find it, other times not. I've successfully printed two test pages. That's all. The rest of the time it gets "stuck" and I get the message "usb port busy...will retry in 30 seconds" well, the pages never come out. Deleting and reinstalling the printer has only worked once.
I tried an old HP Laser Jet with my parallel port. I've had one test page print, and it took 20 minutes or more before it came out. Otherwise, same similar problem to Espon. Right now I have no working printers and am just about ready to go back to 8.2. Linus On Sunday 06 October 2002 08:59 am, Angus Auld wrote: > > Greetings everyone, > > > > I am having a problem trying to configure my Epson Stylus Color 480SXU in > > Mdk 9.0. > > > > This printer wasn't detected during install of 9.0, but it is showing > > correctly in MCC. When I try to configure with PrinterDrake, I go through > > the wizard process, and all seems OK till I try to test the driver and > > get asked for a password: > > > > "The access to the requested resource on the CUPS server running on > > localhost (port 631) requires a password." So, I then enter my user > > password....that's not good enough. I then try my root password, it chews > > on that for quite a while, during which I get a bit of erratic window > > behaviour, then it refuses my root password too. What does PrinterDrake > > want?? > > > > I click on "Finish" and get this error: "An error occurred while > > retrieving the printer list: client-error-not-found". > > > > Why isn't my printer being "found"? > > > > The 480SXU is a usb only printer, and it's listed on the Mdk hardware > > site as being perfectly compatible w/9.0. It worked perfect for me under > > 8.2. > > > > It doesn't seem to be detected during boot. usb is loaded but the printer > > isn't detected. > > > > Anyone have any ideas? TIA for anything. > > --------------------------------------------------------- > > I got my printer configured and working. I tried unplugging the usb cable > from the computer port and plugging it back in.....that didn't help, but I > tried plugging it into my other usb port...presto! I was able to configure > the printer w/PrinterDrake, and it is now functioning OK. > > I wonder why the first port was not acceptable?? It was working there in > Mdk 8.2. > > Seems strange that the installer didn't offer to configure my printer :-/ > It works now anyway. ;-) > > > --Angus > > "This is the Earth School......always in session. Now is the right time to > learn, and teach."--A.A.
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