Re: Escputil --raw-device and CUPS

2004-05-24 Thread Kristian Niemi
Nick Croft wrote: I've had a suggestion that I need to go through the usb cable and not use the parallel port. In your first mail you wrote that you "got the new Epson Color Stylus C83 printing OK with CUPS via the router". Is the printer connected directly to the computer, or is it attached `th

Re: Escputil --raw-device and CUPS

2004-05-23 Thread richard lyons
On Sunday 23 May 2004 08:44, Nick Croft wrote: > * Jens Simmoleit ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > ... you might also check if this has something to do with the > > bios settings. AFAIK all modern printers (from 3-5 years back) > > use bidirectional settings to communicate. Maybe it's turned off? > >

Re: Escputil --raw-device and CUPS

2004-05-23 Thread Nick Croft
* Jens Simmoleit ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > ... you might also check if this has something to do with the > bios settings. AFAIK all modern printers (from 3-5 years back) use > bidirectional settings to communicate. Maybe it's turned off? > > So you can send the signals to the printer but it

Re: Escputil --raw-device and CUPS

2004-05-23 Thread Nick Croft
* richard lyons ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > H 0.00 > > On Thursday 20 May 2004 03:08, Kristian Niemi wrote: > > Nick Croft wrote: > [...] > > > $ escuptil -i -r /dev/lp0 is > > > 'Cannot parse output from printer'. > [...] > > > I wonder if it could be as easy as telling escputil that you h

RE: Escputil --raw-device and CUPS

2004-05-21 Thread Jens Simmoleit
> I don't think CUPS has that much to do with anything escputil does. At > least I've thought that it communicates directly with the printer, not > through CUPS. > If that's true you might also check if this has something to do with the bios settings. AFAIK all modern printers (from 3-5 years back

Re: Escputil --raw-device and CUPS

2004-05-21 Thread richard lyons
On Thursday 20 May 2004 03:08, Kristian Niemi wrote: > Nick Croft wrote: [...] > > $ escuptil -i -r /dev/lp0 is > > 'Cannot parse output from printer'. [...] > I wonder if it could be as easy as telling escputil that you have a > new model of epson printer (`new' means newer than Stylus Color 740

Re: Escputil --raw-device and CUPS

2004-05-20 Thread Kristian Niemi
I wonder if it could be as easy as telling escputil that you have a new model of epson printer (`new' means newer than Stylus Color 740 ...), i.e. add "--new" or "-u" to the command. I get a similar error as you do if I leave that out. Oh, and sometimes it doesn't work the first time around, bu

Escputil --raw-device and CUPS

2004-05-19 Thread Nick Croft
Hello, I've got the new Epson Color Stylus C83 printing OK with CUPS via the router. Everything available with CUPS admininstration seems to be working fine. However, I want to check the ink level, and for this I need to use a command line tool, escputil. The output for $ escuptil -i -r /dev/lp