[plug] Printer Setup.

[Paul Dean]

hya,

I'm not to familiar with Debian, but I'm sure it will need a /etc/printcap 
file, to tell the system when you send a job to the spool what to do with it.

RH has printtool, maybe something similar...

hope this helps a bit...


At 10:18 AM 27/07/2001 +0800, you wrote:
>G'day,
>
>I am trying to setup my epson stylus 440. I have compiled the parport
>modules and installed them. When I 'cat
>/proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0/autoprobe' it returns
>   CLASS:PRINTER;
>   MODEL:Stylus COLOR 440;
>   MANUFACTURER:EPSON;
>   DESCRIPTION:EPSON Stylus COLOR 440;
>   COMMAND SET:ESCPL2,BDC;
>
>However whenever I send a job to the printer (using lp or pdq) I get an
>error "/dev/lp0: No such device"
>
>/dev/lp0 does exist with major number 6 minor number 0.
>
>The printer was working until I installed this fresh copy of Debian so there
>hasn't been any hardware changes.
>
>Any suggestions ?
>
>
>Michael.
>

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