Cannot print on Epson Stylus C60

[Daniel Robitaille]

> I have an Epson Stylus C60 printer, and have installed the driver for it
> from gimp-print. However, I don't seem able to print!
> 
> Sending a test page results in the page being queued, but nothing else
> happens.
> 
> The printer is connected to my parallel port, yet the Printing config
> seems to insist on pointing to
> 
> * Network Printer  [CUPS Printer (IPP)]
> 
> with the URI: parallel:/dev/unknown-parallel0
> 
> If I try to switch to
> 
> * Local Printer
> 
> the printer name does appear in 'Use a detected printer' but it doesn't
> seem possible to save this setting (it reverts to Network Printer as
> above when I reopen the dialog. Pressing 'Print Test Page' before
> closing adds another test to the queue, but still nothing happens).
> 
> Does anybody have any ideas?
> 

I had a very similar problem with my Lexmark Z53 (which also uses
gimpprint).  What I discovered was that if I switched the printer from
the parallel port to the USB port (that printer model works with
both), all my printer problems disapeared.  So I didn't investigated
farther into that problem.  And since cupsys-driver-gimpprint is part
of universe, I didn't file a bug report.