Pascal, That did the trick detected and test page printed.
Many thanks to all of you! Is ther something about one of the upgrades that could have removed the USB back-end - it's not something that I knowingly did myself. Here is the output - not totally clean, but just cosmetic problems it appears: sudo dpkg-reconfigure cupsys Password: In file "/usr/share/menu/python-wxtools", at (or in the definition that ends at) line 9: icon="/usr/share/pixmaps/xrced.png" ^ Unexpected end of line. Skipping file because of errors... * Stopping Common Unix Printing System: cupsd [ OK ] In file "/usr/share/menu/python-wxtools", at (or in the definition that ends at) line 9: icon="/usr/share/pixmaps/xrced.png" ^ Unexpected end of line. Skipping file because of errors... * Starting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd [ OK ] -- Epson cx6600 - stopped printing, now not detected https://launchpad.net/bugs/93158 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs