Configuring an Epson Printer

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 18 August 2006 01:20, Rob Blomquist wrote:
>I have an Epson C80 which I know works fine with Cups, but I am having a
> fit getting it to run stably with any Debian based distro.
>
>My first problem with both the KDE and the Ubuntu printer interfaces is I
> have no printers to choose from. The field is blank. I assume I am
> missing a package, but what one?
>
>Secondly, does any one have an Epson C80 or similar they have running
>successfully?

I know this isn't a lot of help, but I have an epson c82 (usb) that works 
great.  A lot of how well any printer works is controled how well its 
detected, and generally it should remain powered up 24/7.

What do you get for a 'lsusb -v'?  You should get a stanza resembling 
somewhat, this as an opening verse:

Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04b8:0005 Seiko Epson Corp. Stylus Printer
Device Descriptor:
  bLength                18
  bDescriptorType         1
  bcdUSB               1.10
  bDeviceClass            0 (Defined at Interface level)
  bDeviceSubClass         0
  bDeviceProtocol         0
  bMaxPacketSize0         8
  idVendor           0x04b8 Seiko Epson Corp.
  idProduct          0x0005 Stylus Printer
  bcdDevice            1.00
  iManufacturer           1 EPSON
  iProduct                2 USB Printer
  iSerial                 3 RL0200301161041200
  bNumConfigurations      1

There's more, quite a bit more to this stanza, but thats what I get here.


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