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problems setting up printer in RH 7.3

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NaturalChiller

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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.

 
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.
 
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
 
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