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[Daniel Gimpelevich]

I have an Epson 1200 in /dev/usb/lp0 and am trying to get the stp driver
offered in printconf to at least print a test page to no avail. Help!!!


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> Message: 9
> Subject: Re: USB printing problem
> From: Dan Burcaw <dburcaw@terrasoftsolutions.com>
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Date: 29 Mar 2002 21:33:55 -0700
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
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> On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 19:42, Joseph Strafach wrote:
>> I've downloaded, unzipped, compiled the source code from the CUPS site.
>> I started the drivers with /etc/init.d/cups start. Opened up mozilla
>> browser and loaded up localhost:631 to add my epson 740 printer.
>> everything went great until I tried to print a test page. I received
>> this error-/Unable to open USB port device file "/dev/usb/lp0": No such
>> device"/
>> 
>> I've tried other ports and the other Epson drivers with the same result.
>> My computer is a powermac G4/400 running YDL 2.2. Printing was fine
>> until I decided to wipe my hard drive and do a clean install of YDL. I
>> previosly was using YDL 2.1 with little or no problems thanks to all the
>> help from this list.
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> Did you try "printconf"? The new print system in 2.2 is much improved.
> It isn't CUPS, but it works fine with my USB based Epson Stylus that
> was a pain in 2.1....
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> -Dan
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