Subj : Solved!  ( Was Re: 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 05:35 pm

The solution was to update to cups-libs-1.1.20-11.4.  Evidently, there is
no dependency between cups and cups-libs.


Jeff


On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 05:03:23 +0000, Jeff Silverman wrote:

> 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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