CUPS and Epson Stylus C80

[Jim Westbrook <jimw@austin.rr.com>]

According to linuxprinting.org and several other sources, printing to an Epson
Stylus C80 is supposed to be a piece of cake using CUPS.  Not so for me.

I'm trying to help a newbie get a SuSE 7.3 Personal installation going.  The
installer program did a pretty good job of setting up the video, mouse,
scanner, and cdrw.  It recognized, and claimed to configure the Epson Stylus
C80 printer.  It just doesn't print!

We've tried Yast2, Yast1, apsfilter/SETUP, switching from CUPS to LPR and
back, upgrading to the latest version from SuSE.com - still not a single byte
written to paper.   

Under cups, the /var/spool/cups directory is created, the queue control files
are written to that dir.  The output data is written to /var/spool/cups/tmp
and then zero'd in length as if they'd been successfully printed.  Just NO
output at the printer.

System is pretty basic, AMD K6-2/500, pair of 40Gb drives (one to Win9x, the
other to SuSE), the printer is IEEE-1284 connected.  Output fails for both
user and as root.

JimW
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