[Scottish] Epson EPL5700L

[Colin McKinnon]

On Wednesday 29 October 2003 21:45, Kyle Gordon wrote:

> Has anyone had any success in getting the Epson EPL5700L (that 'L'
> suffix is the important bit) working on Linux through CUPS? I know that
> the printer requires data in its own special 'EPL' format, but I'm not
> sure how CUPS handles the conversion process.
>

I've gone off Epson printers.

> Due to a weird setup, my printer is connected through a JetDirect 170x
> print server. Pointing CUPS at the 170x and telling it to use the LPR
> queue on port 9100 seems to get the data sent to the printer, but the
> printer locks up just after recieving the data, which is a sure sign
> that the data is in the wrong format.
>

....and there are few peices of technology I dislike more than HP Jetdirect 
cards!

IIRC, port 9100 (,9101,9102...) on a Jetdirecct card simply relays its output 
to the parallel port - i.e. it don't talk BSD printer. A quick shufty on the 
internet suggests that the 170x don't talk lpd at all.

You could try using netcat to send a print file to port 9100 on the 170x - 
which should work. Alternatively you could just tell cups to get on with it 
by using a device URI of the form:
	socket://printer.ip.address:9100


HTH

Colin