Re: USB printer not working

Printers being flakey to start with, I would drop a
knoppix cd or similiar in and do a small print to make
sure that somehow the printer didn't die between and
betwix the last print job and now.

Just my two cents worth.


--- Alan Dayley <alandd@consultpros.com> wrote:
> As I have announced on the list, I am a happy user
> of Fedora and recently
> installed KDE 3.2. I am pleased with results I have
> had so far. However,
> after a recent migration to a new hard drive, the
> printer is very flakey, at
> best.
>
> In a nut shell, I print something, see the job go
> into the queue, see the job
> go out of the queue but nothing happens at the
> printer. I have played with
> various configuration methods and stuff but am
> having no luck figuring this
> out. I don't understand the print process or driver
> "stack" well enough to
> understand where the hole is. I used to work fine
> but now...
>
> Here is what I have:
> - Full clean install on brand new hard disk.
> - Fedora Core 1 install from CD
> - Latest Fedora Core official updates via up2date
> and yum
> - Update to KDE 3.2 via Fedora RPMs downloaded from
> kde.org
> - Printer is Epson C40UX - vanilla USB inkjet
> printer
> - Using CUPS as print system.
> - Using gimp-print driver
> - Printing configured via KDE Print Config.
> - Printer is visible in /proc/bus/usb/devices and
> via usbview
> - Epson Inkjet Printer Utilities will run the "Clean
> print head" and "Print
> nozzle test pattern" just fine.
>
> BUT, print jobs just go away as complete without
> ever getting to the printer!
>
> Any debugging thoughts out there? I'm in the IRC
> channel right now if you
> want to chat with me there.
>
> Alan
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