[TAG] Talkback:130/tag.html

[Ian Chapman]

Many thanks Ben for the fast reply.  I will certainly look more carefully
into what you said.  On the other hand I only want to print not spend all
night getting a printer education.  Regards Ian in plain text.
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From: Ben Okopnik [mailto:ben at linuxgazette.net] 
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Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 3:02 PM
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Hi, Ian -

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On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 11:22:20AM -0500, Ian Chapman wrote:
>    Hi,
> 
>              Talking about Linux Epson stylus 660 problems.  It has worked
>    and I printed an Open office letter to my sister okay.  But I was
having
>    problems with gnome type and other apps.  This printer was fine under
win
>    98 and since I have updated the HW I decided to get with modern
software
>    too.  Only hick my printer may or may not work.
> 
>              One of the frustrations is too many cooks and no chief.  Lots
of
>    willing helper but not exactly plug and play.

I agree - but I suspect that we mean different things. From what I see
here, you are allowing too many different cooks in your kitchen - and
this is where the problem is coming from. Rather than taking random bits
of advice from here, there, and everywhere, why not try following one
set of instructions from a (hopefully coherent and reputable) single
source? That way, if they're wrong, you'll have learned something along
the way and you'll have better judgement in selecting a better source.
Picking one each from columns A, B, and C teaches you nothing and gives
you no opportunity to improve the process.

E.g., take the instructions from the article you're citing. You clearly
have not followed the advice in there - which I happen to have written -
since you're just guessing at which driver you should use. I gave
specific instructions and even URLs for figuring that out. So, what is
the point and the nature of your complaint? I fail to see it.

If you go back and follow the specific instructions in that article
*and* they fail to work, feel free to come back and say something; I,
for one, would be glad of the error report - and grateful enough to help
you with resolving the problem.

>    I have junked foomatic and
>    ghostscript and just have cups and gutenprint and Ubuntu.   All the
>    detailed stuff about sending this that and the other to the printer is
a
>    waste of time.  

I'm afraid that you're not qualified to judge that, but thanks for your
opinion.

>    The printer is stuck in the middle of a job despite
>    canning all jobs form both gnome and the Firefox type interface.  Even
>    switching off/on the printer seems to keep the job active somewhere.  

Trying random things will create random results, yes. :)

>              Using the Firefox interface I have a choice of several
drivers
>    and no idea what to use.  

Perhaps following the instructions - e.g.,

``
[...] be sure to take a look at http://linuxprinting.org/suggested.html
and to search their database
(http://linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi?make=Anyone) for a specific
printer's rating, before making your final decision.
''

would make good sense. The second link even has specifics on what
drivers to use with a given printer.

>    My printer prints the commands that it receives
>    and does not do what the software is telling it.  I am not really able
to
>    stop printing and have a clean start.  Any ideas would be a great help
as
>    would be a reset button for both SW and HW.

Given your explanation, above, I'd look for multiple print servers
running at the same time, and perhaps check '/var/spool' to see if
there's anything untoward or unexpected is living there.


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