On Sunday 20 January 2002 04:42 pm, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: > With help from the list I have configured my kernel for usb devices. > Now cat /proc/bus/usb/devices shows not only the hub but also an Epson > printer and lists its serial number - it knows its out there. > > I have configured printcap to use /dev/usb/lp0. Still lp testtext (a > short text file) prints nothing. > > I visited www.linux-usb.org where it is reported that this printer works > perfectly after being sent an initialization string uniprint > -dupBeginPageCommand="<00 00 00 1b01 . . .etc. Again a list member > suggested that uniprint is one of the printer definitions for ghostscript. > My version of gs I downloaded from the stable packages for the 2.2.19 > kernel and it doesn't like that -dupBeginPageCommand. > > There seems to be a possibility of putting a printer initialization > string in lpd an I am experimenting with this but have not got it right > so far. > > Since /proc/bus/usb/devices knows the printer is there and the other > operating? system has no trouble using the printer on the usb connection > I feel there should be a simple solution. > > Have I missed something obvious? I would greatly appreciate any > suggestions.
i've got a 580 and struggled for a while to do exactly the same thing you're trying. installing cups and running that through the browser interface took all of five minutes to solve the problem.
