Alex Henry Ribeiro dos Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have an Epson Stylus C42SX and I'm using CUPS and cupsys-bsd. > I get the following output when trying to align heads using the -P option > (All output was manually translated from > brazilian portuguese to english by myself): > > # escputil -a -P C42SX -m escp2-c42sx > Wasn't able to open (null) read/write: Invalid Adress
The (null) bit is a bug. However, you do need to use "-r" here,
because the alignment process requires full read-write access to the
device, and so can't go via a print queue ("-P").
> This is the same output I get when I run escputil through the right-click
> menu in the printing module of KControl.
>
> When I use the -r option, I do not receive any error message, but when I get
> to the prompt
>
> 1st Passage)
>
> nothing has been printed, and repeating the operation ('r') produces no
> effect. Again no error appears, neither in
> the default nor in the error output.
Do you know what options escputil was run with from this menu? The ps
command should be able to show you.
> I don't this one was expected to work, but I think I should add it anyway:
>
> # escputil -a -r parallel:/dev/lp0 -m escp2-c42sx
> Wasn't able to open parallel:/dev/lp0 read/write: Invalid Adress
Try "-r /dev/lp0", i.e.
escputil -a -r /dev/lp0 -m escp2-c42sx
Does this work?
Regards,
Roger
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