[ale] Epson Printers and USB

[Chris Fowler]

I did get it to work by sending a command stating that rawtextis coming.

Win98 will print just fine.  I'm getting an Access Denied in Win2k.  I
believe somthing might have changed in the protocol for W2K.



-----Original Message-----
From: James P. Kinney III [mailto:jkinney at localnetsolutions.com]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 3:47 PM
To: Chris Fowler
Subject: Re: [ale] Epson Printers and USB


It won't take raw text. Try dumping through enscript.

On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 15:04, Chris Fowler wrote:
> I am installing an Epson Stylus 820 in Linux 2.4.7 (RH7.2)
> I see the device in the kernel messages as usblp0.  ls -l > /dev/usblp0
> yields no printout.  I do not even get an error message.  I have this
> printer setup as a raw printer in /etc/printcap and will be rpinting to it
> from windows.  Is there something I forgot to do on the backend?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
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