[SLUG] Thank you
Lucy Cook
marzipan at fsmail.net
Tue Sep 5 19:58:09 BST 2006
Thanks for all the advice guys, and for such a nice welcome =)
I will try out all your suggestions, eek, fingers crossed =)
Lucy x
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Today's Topics:
1. (still) Setting up Epson Stylus C48 (Lucy ?Cook)
2. Re: (still) Setting up Epson Stylus C48 (Stephen O'Neill)
3. Re: (still) Setting up Epson Stylus C48 (john at johnallsopp.co.uk)
4. Re: (still) Setting up Epson Stylus C48 (john at johnallsopp.co.uk)
5. Re: (still) Setting up Epson Stylus C48 (Stephen O'Neill)
6. Re: (still) Setting up Epson Stylus C48 (john at johnallsopp.co.uk)
7. Re: (still) Setting up Epson Stylus C48 (Martin Webb)
8. REVOLUTION OS (Fintan Gaughan)
9. Re: (still) Setting up Epson Stylus C48 (Martin Webb)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 15:05:16 +0200 (CEST)
From: Lucy ?Cook <marzipan at fsmail.net>
Subject: [SLUG] (still) Setting up Epson Stylus C48
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I'm totally confused (again). Right, so on www.linuxprinting.org/ it tells me that the Epson Stylus C48 works perfectly, yet it isn't on any of the lists to choose from when I'm setting it up? I've printed some test pages out by choosing the Epson Stylus C50 , which is more than it just feeding me blank sheets of paper. Unfortunatly, the test pages are a total mess with stuff overlapping and other random stuff =( I am aware that this is probably happening due to me not having a clue what I'm doing. I'm not ready to give up on Linux just yet, the printer just seems to be an on-going problem. I hope no-one would object to me bringing my machine to one of your meetings, perhaps it would be easier to find out what the problem is if people could see it in action?
Thanks,
Lucy 8)
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Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 14:15:16 +0100
From: Stephen O'Neill <soneill84 at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [SLUG] (still) Setting up Epson Stylus C48
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Hi Lucy and welcome.
Lucy Cook wrote:
> it tells me that the Epson Stylus C48 works perfectly, yet it isn't on any of the lists to choose from when I'm setting it up?
Sounds about right.
> I am aware that this is probably happening due to me not having a clue what I'm doing.
Welcome to our world, I can see that we're going to get along wonderfully.
> I'm not ready to give up on Linux just yet
Hurrah, John's taught you well. We would forgive you if you did.
> I hope no-one would object to me bringing my machine to one of your meetings
Go for it.
Perhaps this Hungarian chap can help you as he's had the same tooth
pullingly painful experience; and had no help; and all in the last month.
http://lists.freestandards.org/pipermail/printing-user-epson/2006/005683.html
If not then at least you have the opportunity to make a new friend.
Sorry for being utterly unhelpful, but I'm in the clearly rather
fortunate "mine just worked" bag... I will holler if I think of anything.
Steve O
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 09:41:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: john at johnallsopp.co.uk
Subject: Re: [SLUG] (still) Setting up Epson Stylus C48
To: marzipan at fsmail.net, "Scarborough Linux User Group"
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> I'm totally confused (again). Right, so on www.linuxprinting.org/ it
> tells me that the Epson Stylus C48 works perfectly, yet it isn't on
> any of the lists to choose from when I'm setting it up?
Where are you at?
Are we still at step five of the how to?
On mine, when I add printer, there are three fields, the name of the
printer, location and description which I think are all just plain
English things for your benefit, the next thing is a drop-down list of
devices (not printers). Mine shows hp:/usb/deskjet_5100 etc which I
took to mean my HP Deskjet 5150. With your printer plugged in and
switched on, is there anything in that list that sounds useful?
J
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Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 09:46:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: john at johnallsopp.co.uk
Subject: Re: [SLUG] (still) Setting up Epson Stylus C48
To: marzipan at fsmail.net, "Scarborough Linux User Group"
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> I'm totally confused (again).
> Lucy 8)
Oh, one other point of protocol, while we're at it.
You haven't done anything wrong, but just so you get what's going on:
In Linux world it's good to edit the message(s) that preceeded the one
to which you are replying leaving just what's completely relevant,
then add your next comments at the bottom. A reader may then read the
whole message in the usual way (top to bottom) and be reminded of the
current situation.
This contrasts with Windows world in which the user does not edit
previous messages and writes new stuff at the top.
Obviously a > that precedes a line means it was t'other person wot
wrote it, and >> means it was the one before that, ad infinitum. These
are usually added automagically.
J
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Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 14:51:09 +0100
From: Stephen O'Neill <soneill84 at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [SLUG] (still) Setting up Epson Stylus C48
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john at johnallsopp.co.uk wrote:
> Where are you at?
>
> Are we still at step five of the how to?
I haven't read any of the tutorials, but what are you using to add the
printer - through the "gnome" or "kde" control panel equivalent, or
through the CUPS interface at http://127.0.0.1:631/, or through editing
config files?
Steve O
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 10:07:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: john at johnallsopp.co.uk
Subject: Re: [SLUG] (still) Setting up Epson Stylus C48
To: "Scarborough Linux User Group" <scarborough at mailman.lug.org.uk>
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> john at johnallsopp.co.uk wrote:
>> Where are you at?
>>
>> Are we still at step five of the how to?
>
> I haven't read any of the tutorials, but what are you using to add the
> printer - through the "gnome" or "kde" control panel equivalent, or
> through the CUPS interface at http://127.0.0.1:631/, or through
> editing
> config files?
Certainly not editing config files, jeez, calm down :-). I'm trying to
lead her through the Linux printing how-to, which takes you to the
CUPS interface at that address.
However, that how-to also suggests alternatively using the KDE printer
manager add-printer dialogue, so I was considering asking what happens
when you try that .. Lucy? I think you're running KDE so that might
work too.
J
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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:33:27 +0100
From: Martin Webb <martin at webb.lcbroadband.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [SLUG] (still) Setting up Epson Stylus C48
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Lucy Cook wrote:
> I'm totally confused (again). Right, so on www.linuxprinting.org/ it tells me that
> the Epson Stylus C48 works perfectly, yet it isn't on any of the lists to choose
> from when I'm setting it up? I've printed some test pages out by choosing the
> Epson Stylus C50
Hello, Lucy,
The Epson C48 is a member of the Epson C40 series of printers. In
general, Epson manufactures printers in families - the C60s, the C80s
etc. Again, in general, the drivers are similar for all members of the
series. For example, I run an Epson C66 using a C64 driver.
I've hesitated to join this thread because I use Fedora and not Suse,
but, somewhere in the Suse works, there should be a driver for one of
the C40 printers?? If not, use Fedora: it's a breeze.
Good luck! We're all in there rooting for you.
Martin
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Message: 8
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 15:52:29 +0100
From: "Fintan Gaughan" <fgaughan at gmail.com>
Subject: [SLUG] REVOLUTION OS
To: "Scarborough Linux User Group" <scarborough at mailman.lug.org.uk>
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Has anybody got this on DVD? I would to see this
http://www.revolution-os.com/index.html
Fintan
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Message: 9
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 16:03:31 +0100
From: Martin Webb <martin at webb.lcbroadband.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [SLUG] (still) Setting up Epson Stylus C48
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john at johnallsopp.co.uk wrote:
>> john at johnallsopp.co.uk wrote:
>>> Where are you at?
>>>
>>> Are we still at step five of the how to?
>> I haven't read any of the tutorials, but what are you using to add the
>> printer - through the "gnome" or "kde" control panel equivalent, or
>> through the CUPS interface at http://127.0.0.1:631/, or through
>> editing
>> config files?
>
> Certainly not editing config files, jeez, calm down :-). I'm trying to
> lead her through the Linux printing how-to, which takes you to the
> CUPS interface at that address.
>
> However, that how-to also suggests alternatively using the KDE printer
> manager add-printer dialogue
Looking in the KDE Printer Manager Add-Printer Dialogue, I see various
C40 printers. Some of them are SX and some are UX. As far as I
remember, the UX jobs are USB printers, so I imagine the SX printers are
not USB (i.e. parallel) printers. The C48 you have is a USB printer,
yes? What about trying the C44UX driver?
Martin
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