Re: Printing w/Epson SC800

2000-09-19 Thread USM Bish
This problem is a bit difficult for me to attempt because you are on 2.2.17, of which I have nil experience. However the problem seems somewhere between your lpd daemon and the kernel response. Kernel 2.2.17 seems to be an okay kernel from the reports that I read, however, there has been one

Re: Printing w/Epson SC800

2000-09-15 Thread John Gilger
USM Bish wrote: > >1. DOS: Do you have DOS Installed as well ? [Y / N] >(An old DOS boot diskette will also do ...) > Boot into Win98 printer works fine > 2. LINUX: > >a) Do a dmesg. Check which device your printer is polled > EpsonSC800 at /dev/lp0 > >b) Do a cat Tx

Re: Printing w/Epson SC800

2000-09-13 Thread USM Bish
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 10:40:18PM +0200, Stephan Kulka wrote: > > > > > > 2. LINUX: > > > >a) Do a dmesg. Check which device your printer is polled > > IF polled THEN > > No kernel problems > > Move to b) > > ELSE > > lp suppo

Re: Printing w/Epson SC800

2000-09-12 Thread Stephan Kulka
> > 1. DOS: Do you have DOS Installed as well ? [Y / N] >(An old DOS boot diskette will also do ...) > >IF Yes THEN > >Do a TYPE TxtFile > PRN >IF Output Ok THEN > NO Hardware problem > Exit DOS and go to Linux >ELSE > Hardwar

Re: Printing w/Epson SC800

2000-09-12 Thread John Anderson
I have found that using available at the unstable distribution Debian web site is much easier to print with than apsfilter. I have an Epson Stylus 850 that works wonderfully using the 500 setting, for yours the stylus 800 setting should work fine. I have nerver been able to figure out how to pri

Re: Printing w/Epson SC800

2000-09-12 Thread USM Bish
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 09:44:47PM -0700, John Gilger wrote: > I feel like a total mental case. I have potato up and running fine, but > even though I've read a pile of f'ing manuals I can't get my epson sc800 > printer to listen when debian talks! > > I have installed apsfilter, lprng, and aladdi

Printing w/Epson SC800

2000-09-11 Thread John Gilger
I feel like a total mental case. I have potato up and running fine, but even though I've read a pile of f'ing manuals I can't get my epson sc800 printer to listen when debian talks! I have installed apsfilter, lprng, and aladdin-ghostscript as recommended in the PRINTING-HOWTO, but for some unknow