Epson Stylus C86 Printer

Ron de Bruijn iampure at gmail.com
Wed May 18 05:07:04 PDT 2005


I thought I sent a mail to the mailinglist, but I have exactly the
same problem(only different model). It's a kernel bug in the usb
driver. It's been there since at least september 2004.

On 5/18/05, Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays at rogers.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 18:42, Mike Jeays wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 15:44, dgmm wrote:
> > > On Monday 16 May 2005 02:35, Mike Jeays wrote:
> > > > I have just bought one of these printers, and am having trouble
> getting
> > > > it to work with ghostscript. It is connected via a USB port, and it
> > > > responds momentarily when I send anything directly to /dev/ulpt0.  
> > > >
> > > > I would appreciate the correct parameters for ghostscript - I think
> it
> > > > should work with device ijs and 'server' ijsgimpprint, which has been
> > > > installed in /usr/local/bin.
> > > >
> > > > Some of the instructions recommend CUPS and FooMatic, and seem much
> more
> > > > complicated than I ought to need for a local installation.
> > > >
> > > > I tested the printer with Windows, and it does work.
> > > 
> > > Try /dev/unlpt0
> > > 
> > > Note the "n" ;-)
> > > 
> > 
> > That was a really useful hint, thanks!  escputil now works, but my
> > ghostscript filter still needs work.
> > 
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> I apologise for following up my own post, but here is the excerpt from
> my non-working filter.  I think the DeviceModel parameter needs to be
> corrected, but I have googled for some time, and can't find the answer.
> More ideas will be very welcome!
> 
> cat $TMP | /usr/local/bin/gs \
>      -sDEVICE=ijs \
>      -sIjsServer=/usr/local/bin/ijsgimpprint \
>      -sDeviceManufacturer=EPSON \
>      -sDeviceModel=escp2-870 \  # I also tried escp2-ex and escp2-670
>      -q -dNOPAUSE -r600 
>  
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