A different printing problem, Breezy and Epson C66

[Colin Murphy]

I would like to use the escputil utility to check the status of my printer.  I 
understand that I need to do this is RAW mode but I am having difficulty in 
finding the correct command line parameters to pass, particularly the device 
name.  How do I figure out what /dev/ this USB printer is connected to?  The 
Printer Manager suggests 'usb://EPSON/Stylus C66' but that doesn't work.

Clues please.

I am also going to take the liberty of re-posting a message I sent on Monday 
to which I've not had a single reply on this list.  Surely someone can help 
me figure out what I'm doing  wrong.

Printing problems, Breezy and Epson C66
 Date: Monday 18:52:02
 From: Colin Murphy <lists at spudulike.me.uk>
 To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
 
 
I have a problem when trying to print to my Epson C66 in Breezy.  The printer, 
with a USB connection, was installed and work fine but something, possibly 
the printer running out of paper, has brought this brief period of success to 
an end.

I have both Gnome and KDE desktops running and I am most familiar with KDE.

Under Gnome the Print Manager shows the printer as 'paused' but there seems to 
be no way to resume printing.  Am I missing some functionality from this 
Gnome utility?

Under KDE the Print Manager gives me the chance to enter 'Admin mode' and I 
can see a red border, presumably telling me I have entered the correct 
password.  On the 'Printer' menu > 'Start/Stop Printer' I can select 'Start 
printer' but this doesn't seem to do anything -  in fact, if I go back his 
menu I only have the option to 'Start printer' which suggests the printer 
hasn't started otherwise I would be able to 'Stop Printer'.

Continuing with the KDE Print Manager, if I then select 'Print Server'  > 
'Restart Server' I get an error message:-

        Unable to restart print server. Error message received from manager:
        Unable to find a running CUPS server

I have done nothing, to my knowledge, to stop CUPS running.  Has it really 
stopped?  I think it is still running because:-

spudulike at ubuntu:~$ ps aux | grep cups
lp       20263  0.0  0.7   7764  3772 ?        SNs  07:35   
0:02 /usr/sbin/cupsd -F


Now, in my Suse days, I would localhost:631 and play with the server from 
there.  I am denied this option, which seems to be the final one to me, in 
Ubuntu.

I have gone to the effort of adding a new entry for the same printer.  This 
has not helped as it immediately gone into 'Paused printing' mode, like the 
first.

So, clues please as the what to do next?


-- 
Colin Murphy - Colin at spudulike.me.uk

A: Because it's wrong!
> Q: Why shouldn't I top post?

-- 
Colin at Spudulike.me.uk

A:Because it's wrong!
> Q: Why shouldn't I top post?