You may be encountering the issue that I (and others) had with the 600 Color (also helped at least one person with a 740),
http://www.flamingspork.com/linux/doc/epson_printers.html I have a script in /etc/init.d (and appropriate run level stuff) to do this on bootup (included below). See the site for other people's experiences. Yes, the web site needs updating - written in the days of linuxppc 2000, and my email address on it is wrong :) #!/bin/bash case "$1" in start) echo "Setting up printer parameters.." stty 230400 raw -echo cstopb < /dev/ttyS1 stty ixon ixoff < /dev/ttyS1 ;; stop) ;; esac On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 04:21, Nathanael Hasbrouck wrote: > All right, after a week of poking my brain has about had it. :^) I'm trying > to get my Epson Stylus Photo 700 working with Cups, I'm running debian/sid > (mostly up to date) on and oldworld pmac, homebuilt kernel 2.4.23-pre5-ben0. > As far as I can tell, I've got Everything I Could Ever Need(tm) installed > (Cups packages, gimp-print drivers, ghostscript, foomatic packages, and > possibly more I've forgotten already) but I haven't been able to get it to > print properly. It spits out numerous pages of what I assume is PostScript > interpreted by a raster printer without proper conversion, but I'm not sure. > It prints a couple few lines of random chars and goes to the next page. I > haven't let it get beyond about four pages. > > As far as I can tell, I have my printer settings ok. My device URI is > 'serial:/dev/ttyS1?baud=230400' (printer port), with or without '+bits=8 > +parity=none+flow=soft', changing bitrates and such doesn't seem to do > anything. I've tried native cups driver, gimp-print ppd and foomatic > gimp-print/ijs ppd, from both the foomatic install and generated from > linuxprinting.org, and the gimp-print/stp driver. I've also tried > configuring with Kprint, foomatic-configure, and the Cups web interface, with > pretty much the same effect, only very slight variations in output. > > I've also googled fairly extensively, and no one seems to know anything about > using the Stylus Photo 700 on a serial port. Oh, and there aren't any > obvious errors in the logs that I could see, either; I do have it logging at > debug level (logs readily available if needed). Anyone have tips to go on > from here? What do I wack at next? This is driving me nuts and I'd like to > make it work. I hate to think about all this wrangling for nothing. :^) And > sorry if I missed something obvious. (I really hope I haven't, it's bad > enough when it's just obvious. It's worse when you've been racking your > brain the whole week and it's obvious. ;) That said, I eagerly await any > tiny scrap of information you could possibly dig up that might help. :^) > > NRH >
