Hi, I recently installed Debian (potato) and am having trouble eliciting any signs of life from my printer (EPSON Stylus COLOR 777 )
It is not a hardware/cable problem as all is well printing with Windows ( also installed ) Given a test file 'test' lpr test (either as regular user or root ) gives no indication of error but no activity from my printer test > /dev/lp0 (as root ) also gives no indication of error but no activity ( >/dev/lp1 or /lp2 give 'device not configured) I have compiled parport and lp support into my kernel (2.4.4) The relevant lines from dmesg are: parport0: PC-style at 0x778 [PCSPP, TRISTATE] parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(98) parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(98) parport0: Printer, EPSON Stylus COLOR 777 lp0: using parport0 (polling) It seems to me that my problem is more low level than a spooling or filter problem as there is no activity, even with directly accessing the printer. I am unsure how to proceed to logically diagnose my problem My resources are the printing how-to and Running Linux (O'Reilly) Any advice on how to proceed or pointing to additional resources would be appreciated. TIA Norbert
