problems setting up printer in RH 7.3

[NaturalChiller]

I am trying to setup an Epson Color Stylus 860 printer in Red Hat Linux 7.3. The printer is fully functioning (works under XP). It is a local printer plugged directly into my machine via usb. I have used printtool, setting the path to /dev/lp0 and I have tried all three of the drivers for the Epson 860 (they offer a gimp driver and two stylus drivers). It all seems fine, but when I try to print a test page....it simply says, sending job to the printer (or whatever) and then nothing happens. No printing.... Any suggestions? Any help here would be greatly appreciated. rock on.

 

[cleverhandle]

Well, first off, /dev/lp0 should only be for parallel port printers, unless RH did some crazy symlinking. My USB printer is at /dev/usb/lp0, but that's with devfs, which changes some device names around, so yours may be different.

Second, have you checked a site like Linux Printing to see the compatibility for that model? There are still many decent Windows printers that are very flaky under Linux. Epsons are usually well supported, but I don't know off the top of my head if that one works.

 

[NaturalChiller]

linuxprinting.org gave the Epson 860 a "works perfectly" rating. I have tried to use /dev/usb/lp0 as the path to my printer, but that doesn't work. When I boot up and and it tries to start lpd, it gives an error message saying no such device (/dev/usb/lp0). Not sure what to do....Any suggestions? TIA