CUPS not initialising USB printer correctly?

[Ian Moore]

Hi,
I've been using CUPS with a couple of epson inkjet over the last few years. My 
old inkjet which was a parallel port version seemed to work OK (albeit *very* 
slowly). When I bought a new C61 USB printer a couple of years ago, I found 
it printed OK sometimes, but often the first time I print to it, it prints 
garbage. I have stop CUPS, clear the print queue, reset the printer & restart 
CUPS (sometimes several times) before it will print correctly. Once it's 
right, it stays that way until I switch my computer off.
I've tried starting the computer with the printer on & with it off (which 
means I have to stop & restart cups before it will detect the printer), but 
either way I have this problem.
I assume that CUPS is somehow initialising the printer incorrectly sometimes.
Has anyone else experienced this problem, or have any suggestion for fixing it 
without the whole stop, reset, reload process?

Cheers,
Ian
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Ian Moore

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