Re: [SLUG] cups printing with RH 7.3 no default printer

From: Scott Piper (piper@ij.net)
Date: Thu Jul 18 2002 - 13:17:01 EDT


does your printer show up in syslog as /dev/usb/lp0 (or some other usb
lp device)? Is you kernel compiled with support for USB printers? I
think it should work.

scott

Russell Hires wrote:

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>Is your epson usb or serial? I've got a usb epson (777i) that I can't get to
>print at all in Linux...
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>Russell
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>On Thursday 18 July 2002 10:12 am, you wrote:
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>>Is anyone using cups and Redhat 7.3? I have cups setup to print to my
>>Epson C60 and all is working, kinda. I can't seem to get a default
>>printer setup. I've tried the man pages and did the lpadmin -E -h
>>localhost -P epsonc60 as stated in the man pages. I've also searched
>>google but still can't get programs such as mozilla or gedit to print to
>>a default printer. I can get them to print by doing lpr -P epsonc60. But
>>what a pain as I have to define this everytime I need to print from the
>>application. What the heck am I missing? I don't remember having this
>>problem with Cups on 7.2 I have also removed the LPR and printer-conf as
>>per the Cups instructions.
>>Thanks for any insight into this problem
>>Mike M.
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>>
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