CUPS, foomatic-rip, 4.8 RELEASE (was: How to get CUPS to work)

[Todd Stephens]

On Monday 01 September 2003 05:43 pm, Todd Stephens wrote:
> I have been trying to get this setup to work as it does on my Linux
> box. Has anyone gotten CUPS working using the foomatic-rip/gimp-print
> method outlined on Linuxprinting.org?  I have an Epson Stylus C82 at
> /dev/lpt0.
>
> Everything seems to working properly with CUPS now; I have the CUPS
> scheduler running, the printer is configured, but when I go to print
> anything, I get the following message:
> #lp -d EpsonC82 /etc/motd
> request id is EpsonC82-4 (1 file(s))
>
> Then nothing ever prints.  I think CUPS is configured properly or I
> would not have gotten that far, but maybe GS or gimp-print is not.
> Does anyone have any experience with this?

Looks like I got it.  I guess it was the foomatic-rip that was breaking 
it.  I installed the printer again using a different driver (one that 
for some reason did not show up the first time I tried) and it works 
now.  

-- 
Todd Stephens