[Techtalk] printer help needed

[Pierre Fortin]

I don't have a USB printer, so I can't help with that; but I have both
cups and lpr installed and use either one at will.  

Have you tried CUPS via http://localhost:631 to setup your printer?  It's
pretty easy and works well enough that I rarely see complaints these days.

HTH,
Pierre

On Sat, 27 Apr 2002 18:32:41 -0700 (PDT) Conni
<ccovingt at one-eyed-alien.net> wrote:

> I got an Epson Stylus C40UX when I ordered my new VAIO (which hasn't
> arrrived quite yet.)  It's got a USB connector, and so does my regular
> machine, so I thought I'd try to hook them up and try out the color
> printer.  I spent over 2.5 hours arguing with settings, drivers, and
> installation stuff before getting extremely frustrated (wanting to boot
> the whole damn system out the window) and giving up.  Here's what I did,
> along with the problems.
> 
> I'm running RedHat 7.2, with Ximian Desktop/Gnome/sawfish.  Default
> printing settings were installed, and they worked fine for my Canon
> BJ-200ex (old, old printer.  Works, mostly.)
> 
> First, I su'ed.  Then I ran printtool, which runs printconf-gui.  I
> added a new printer, and it detected the Epson USB printer.  Only in the
> list of drivers, there was no stylus C40.  So I picked generic
> postscript printer, sent a test page, and it never printed out.  So I
> tried various other Stylus printers, none of which worked.
> 
> So I googled, found linuxprinting.org, and looked up documentation
> relevant to this printer.  It was recommended to use cups and gimp-print
> to get this printer working.  To install cups, you must first uninstall
> all other printing things, like lpr.  This is where the problems start.
> 
> I rpm -e gnome-print, with few problems.  There's some dependency issue,
> so I erase that, too.  Then I try to erase printconf, and there's a
> dependency issue with printconf-gui, so I 'rpm -e printconf
> printconf-gui'.  Which chugs along, then hangs.  So I ctrl-C and try
> again.  Repeat.  At one point, I get the error that printconf-gui is
> not installed, so I cheer weakly and rpm -e printconf.  Which chugs
> along and hangs.  At this point, I'm getting throughly irritated, and
> then I get an error: 
> error: db3 error(-30998) from db->close: DB_INCOMPLETE: Cache flush was
> unable to complete
> rpmdb: Overflow page 2746 of invalid type
> error: db3 error(-30985) from db->verify: DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database
> verification failed
> 
> printconf is still installed, and LPRng is as well.  I've tried
> everything I know of (which, admittedly, isn't much), and I'm completely
> flummoxed. I have RH7.2 cds in the event that I need to reinstall the
> original printing services (I have a couple papers to print out for
> class that are due on Tuesday).
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
> 
> TIA,
> Conni
> 
> -- 
> Would now be an appropriate time to say that you disturb me?  
> 			-Ford
> 
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> 
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