I have CUPS and my new printer (Epson Stylus C40UX, $49) working excellently
on my RedHat 7.2 with KDE 2.2-11. Without including all the mis-steps, this
is what I did.
1. Made a directory called "CUPSStuff" off my home directory to put
everything in
2. Downloaded these source packages from the location indicated
cups-1.1.12-source.tar.gz
http://www.cups.org/software.html
gimp-print-4.2.0.tar.gz
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1537
jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
libpng-1.0.6.tar.gz
tiff-v3.4-tar
zlib-1.1.3.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.easysw.com/pub/libraries
3. Unpackaged all these with Archiver
4. Did "./configure", "make" and "make install" in each source subdirectory
for jpeg, tiff and zlib.
5. libpng does not use autoconf so it has it's own build rules. It expects
to see a directory called "zlib" with the zlib source on the same directory
level as a directory called "libpng" When the source packages are
uncompressed, the sources are put in directories with names including version
numbers. Rather than change the directory names, I made symbolic links to
the original directory names in my CUPSStuff directory, like this
ln -s zlib-1.1.3 zlib
ln -s libpng-1.0.6 libpng
6. Now, going into the libpng directory, I executed "make" and "make install"
Now with all the dependencies built, we can build CUPS.
7. First, I removed my LPD with "rpm -e lpd"
8. Changing to the CUPS source directory, I did the usual "./configure",
"make" and "make install"
9. Start CUPS by issuing "/usr/sbin/cupsd"
10. To confirm that it is running, load it's web administration interface at
http://localhost:631 in your favorite browser. If it comes up, CUPS is
running. At this point I could print to my printer but not with full support
since GIMP-PRINT is not installed yet.
11. I changed to the gimp-print directory to do the usual build process.
However, to interface with CUPS, the configure command must have a special
option specified. I did "./configure --with-cups" then "make" and then "make
install"
12. I restarted CUPS to "see" the gimp-print drivers with "/etc/init.d/cups
restart"
13. Reloading the CUPS web administration interface in Konqueror, I installed
my printer on the USB port, choosing the gimp driver.
Now, I have full access to hi-res printing and oodles of features offered by
a $49 printer. Sweet!
Along the way, I downloaded the KUPS package, a CUPS admin interface for use
in KDE. It compiled and supposedly installed OK (after downloading and
installing QtCUPS library) but it seg faults when I run it. I will have to
look into that another time. The CUPS web admin interface works fine for now.
There, it is off my chest. I thought I would post this so that anyone
wondering if a $49 Epson Stylus C40UX would work with Linux would know that
it will. And great!
Alan
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