printing via USB on RH 7.1

[Kevin Buettner]

On Dec 3,  9:28pm, tim cutler wrote:

> I just bought an Epson Stylus C80 for my linux box. I connected it to 
> the USB port, and I think I have set up the printer per instructions at 
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/ using "printtool", setting the device to 
> /dev/usb/lp0. Print daemon is alive per /var/log/messages. Per the web 
> site, this printer is very linux friendly using ghostscript.
> 
> And nothing comes out of the printer. Printer standalone self-test page 
> is okay. I tried cat'ing a file to /dev/usb/lp0 and the command executes 
> immediately with no response from printer. Also, cat'ed to /dev/lp0 and 
> that command hangs, which seems to indicate that that is the port that 
> the printer wants to use. So, I'm wondering if the linux S/W is confused 
> about how to talk to the printer. Or, the USB port is not set up right.

Why do you think that the file should print if you ``cat'' it to the
printer device?  Have you tried the ``lpr'' command?

Kevin