CUPS - What does it stand for?

Can't

Usually

Print

Stuff

As you may guess I am having problems. I've got an Epson C40UX (yes it's cheap but I ain't got much money to spare on computer stuff). Linuxprinting.org tells me that it prints 'Perfectly'.
I downloaded and installed the latest CUPS and Ghostscript (as recommended) and compiled them and installed them as per instructions. After some head scratching (and searching the .net) I finally figured out how to switch the damn thing on. BUT administering it through a browser keeps throwing up bizarre errors such as 'Error : client-error-gone' or 'client-error-forbidden'. The documentation does not seem to be very helpful in this respect (unless I've missed something).

Below is a brief extract of the error log :

D [19/Oct/2002:00:02:42 +0100] [Job 26] Current allocation mode is local
D [19/Oct/2002:00:02:42 +0100] [Job 26] Last OS error: 2
D [19/Oct/2002:00:02:42 +0100] [Job 26] ESP Ghostscript 7.05.5: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
E [19/Oct/2002:00:02:42 +0100] PID 10396 stopped with status 1!
E [19/Oct/2002:00:02:42 +0100] [Job 26] No pages found!
E [19/Oct/2002:00:02:42 +0100] PID 10398 stopped with status 1!
D [19/Oct/2002:00:02:42 +0100] [Job 26] 0 %%EOF
D [19/Oct/2002:00:02:42 +0100] [Job 26] Saw EOF!
D [19/Oct/2002:00:02:42 +0100] [Job 24] cups->header.Duplex = 0
D [19/Oct/2002:00:02:42 +0100] [Job 24] cups->page = 1
D [19/Oct/2002:00:02:42 +0100] [Job 24] cups->ppd = 0x86bfc10
D [19/Oct/2002:00:02:42 +0100] [Job 24] cups->ppd->flip_duplex = 0
D [19/Oct/2002:00:02:42 +0100] [Job 24] width = 2889, height = 3884
D [19/Oct/2002:00:02:42 +0100] [Job 24] PageSize = [ 595 842 ], HWResolution = [ 360 360 ]
D [19/Oct/2002:00:02:42 +0100] [Job 24] HWMargins = [ 8.600 39.600 8.600 25.510 ]
D [19/Oct/2002:00:02:42 +0100] [Job 24] matrix = [ 5.000 0.000 0.000 -5.000 -43.000 4082.450 ]
D [19/Oct/2002:00:02:42 +0100] [Job 24] Finishing.
D [19/Oct/2002:00:02:42 +0100] [Job 24] -dict-
D [19/Oct/2002:00:02:42 +0100] [Job 24] -dict-
D [19/Oct/2002:00:02:42 +0100] [Job 24] -dict-
D [19/Oct/2002:00:02:42 +0100] [Job 24] -dict-
D [19/Oct/2002:00:02:42 +0100] [Job 24] -mark-
D [19/Oct/2002:00:02:42 +0100] [Job 24] -dict-
D [19/Oct/2002:00:02:42 +0100] [Job 24] -mark-
D [19/Oct/2002:00:02:42 +0100] [Job 24] cups_print_banded - flip = 0

The printer is an Epson C40UX, I'm running RH7.2 (Kernel 2.4.7 Enigma). Any help you guys could give me would be appreciated. This printing issue on Linux is beginning to bite. Windoze may be the most evil thing on the planet but at least it doesn't take 12 bloody hours (spread over three days) to try and print a ******** test page!!! (And fail.)

Paul.

how are you trying to configure it????

using the web interface or using the KDE control panel applet???

and lastly are you configuring it as root or as your normal login???


oh btw, CUPS stands for Common Unix Printing System

I'm configuring using the web interface with Mozilla in Gnome (don't personally like KDE but as a relative newbie I don't want to get involved in any wars here ).

The biggest problem is that I get a lot of error messages such as "error-client-gone" or "client-error-not-authorized". This is especially frustrating as the system can obviously SEE the printer with no problem.

Anyway, I HAVE got the thing to work SORT OF. I ditched ESPGS and downloaded Gimp Print (which I should've done in the first place) . Initially I thought it had worked with no problem, however, since I had a printer already configured using the CUPS drivers I tried to delete it. Big mistake. First I got a "client-error-not-authorised" but the printer WAS deleted. Then the gimp-print printer wouldn't print anything "could not open [url=usb://epsonC40]usb://epsonC40[/url] etc etc : device not found".

In the end I had to manually edit printers.conf (not what I really wanted to do) to remove the listed printers and start from scratch. Then I kept getting "client-error-not-authorised" every time I tried to add my printer again.

After a lot of swearing, head scratching and general puzzlement I discovered that if I set up a printer using the command line and then used the web interface to configure the printer using the Gimp Print drivers it works perfectly.

Anyway, the bloody thing works and I'm not touching it again it case it stops....

Paul.

...yes I know what CUPS really stands for...

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