Epson printer setup

[Magnus Lawrie]

squareyes wrote:
> Hi all, 
> I have tried just about everything, been to Epson site, who referred
> me straight on to the cups site, no joy at all. http://localhost:631 
> Admin disbled use gnome / system / config / printers been there a few
> times :-)
> I realise this is not really within the province of ubuntu, but have
> been unable to get my old Epson LQ 500 dot matrix printer to work on any
> variety of Linux. 
> 
I would try installing lib gimp-print.
www.linuxprinting.org has a list of supported drivers.
hth,