OK, a few things here:
1) AL-CX11 *NEVER* *EVER* worked out-of-the-box, for me. In each and every 
Ubuntu version starting from 7.04, I think, up to 10.04.

2) Yes, it requires the driver from avasys.jp (see
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=973233)

3) How did I get it to work? compiling the driver didn't work for me. I
have the printer set up as socket://192.168.1.11:9100, but it simply
won't print; printer doesn't even wake up from standby (the
"microswitch"--actually a relay--referred to in the above posts). Also,
permissions are OK, directory OK as well. Cups access_log and error_log
give no information: all seems to be well, document printed as far as
cups is concerned--but the printer doesn't even wake up.

So, I tried ipp://192.168.1.11:631. Interesting, now I see a *lot* of
stuff in the logs: if I remember correctly (it was very late last
night), ps2pdf or something is started, and it aborts complaining that
libstdc++5 is not found.

Well, it turns out that in 10.04 you have no libstdc++5, only libstdc++6
(and that's what I installed, according to the Ubuntuforums
instructions).

Even the dirty trick of symlinking ++5 to ++6 didn't work. So I
downloaded it from http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/libstdc++5  and
installed it.

Finally, I deleted the printer and reinstalled it through CUPS,
resulting in the usual socket://192.168.1.11:9100 connection.

Works. There is always the issue of CUPS complaining that pstoalcx11.sh
is not installed, but we just ignore it.

Now I will try reproducing on two more laptops, one with 10.04, other
10.04 Netbook Remix. I will try posting some logs as well.

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epson printer won't print (Lucid)
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