Subj : Printing problems under RH FC2 with CUPS on Epson Photo Stylus 890 printer
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Jeff Silverman
Date : Wed Oct 06 2004 06:03 am

When I try printing from Mozilla or with the enscript command or the lpr 
command to my Epson Photo Stylus 890 printer, the print out will cover
anywhere from the 1st inches of the page to the first 4 inches of the page
and then skip to the bottom of the page.  The printer worked fine under
Redhat 9.0 and Fedora Core 1, but this behavior began after I updated to
FC2.  Also, using the simple text editor works properly (it must bypass
part of cups).  Open Office also works properly.  Curiously, the US
postscript test page has a different failure mode: it starts too late: the
top of page, everything from the redhat logo on up is missing.  The right
edge, 2 inches or so of print, is missing.  If I view the generated
postscript with ggv, that's fine.  But even if I print from ggv, the print
is truncated.

I changed the LogLevel in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf from info to debug and I 
am glutted with information.  The only thing that leaps out from the log
file is that printer is reporting that a status of 18 (Media tray empty). 
The problem light on the printer does not light however, and the printer
apparently is printing.  So I believe that the error message is spurious. 
I tried changing from the gimp-print-ijs driver, which is recommended, to
the gimp-print driver, which does not print anything at all!  Nor does the
omni-print driver!  No obvious error message in those logs either. 

I tried updating cups to the latest version using yum but that had no
effect.

 rpm -q -a | egrep "gimp|cups"
mtink-gimp-plugin-0.9.51-1
libgnomecups-0.1.6-7
cups-libs-1.1.20-11.1
cups-1.1.20-11.4
xsane-gimp-0.92-10
gimp-data-extras-1.2.0-11
gimp-print-utils-4.2.6-11
gimp-print-4.2.6-11
gimp-print-plugin-4.2.6-11
gimp-2.0.4-0.fc2.1


Does anybody have any good advice, please?

Many thanks,


Jeff

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