[olug] Printing problems under Suse

[Don E. Kauffman]

I followed the recommendation here but -- No joy -- still get garbage. 

I even shut down the system and turned off the power supply thinking
that maybe there was a "gremlin" somewhere that I could "starve"!! :-) I
reinstalled the printing system via Yast2.

I'm thinking that it's a hardware problem -- probably a motherboard
problem. The printer works fine when connected to another system but not
this one. I would think that reinstalling the software and resetting
everything would have taken care of this &%$#@! crap!

I'm interested in hearing other people's opinions though. 

Thanks,

Don 

On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 21:10 -0500, Jake Churchill wrote:
> A friend of mine had a similar problem with a Canon series with Mandrake.
> He had to install some extra CUPS package.  Use YaST and install new
> software.  Search for CUPS and install EVERYTHING you find.  If that doesn't
> work, then I'm as lost as you.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of Don
> E. Kauffman
> Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 5:41 PM
> To: OLUG
> Subject: [olug] Printing problems under Suse
> 
> Hi all, 
> 
> I'm getting garbage from my Epson Stylus Photo 82o printer that is
> connected to my Suse 9.3 box w/ CUPS via my parallel port.  I started to
> print a page from OpenOffice 2.0 beta (this process has worked before)
> and since then I've gotten nothing but an unrelenting stream of garbage
> characters no matter what I try. I've disconnected the printer and
> turned it on to flush its memory, I've canceled and killed print jobs.
> I've used lpstat to try and identify the problem job -- nothing shows
> up. 
> 
> I know the printer works from my laptop so that possibility is
> eliminated. 
> 
> When I do get the stream stopped the minute I put a test job in the
> stream it returns to printing garbage characters. Can anyone point me to
> a resource that will troubleshoot whether it's a hardware or software
> problem? I've been working on this all afternoon and it's driving me
> nuts!
> 
> Any help will be greatly appreciated!! (I will kiss the feet of those
> who attempt to help -- metaphorically speaking!!)
> 
> Thanks for any help!!
> 
> Don K,