> I recently bought an Epson Stylus Colour 680, having checked out it's
> suitability with Linux @ www.linux-printing.org. So far so good, and I've
> created a UPP driver (Stc680p.upp), placed it in the correct Ghostscript
> directory along with the existent ones, added the correct entry into the
> rhsprinter.db database file under the Epson Stylus Colour (UP) section
[see
> www.best.com/~murakami/uppfiles/index.html] and tried both "printtool" and
> Mandrake's own "printerdrake" utilities. Neither show the addition of the
680
> in their listing sections - and there are no obvious case-sensitive
> discrepancies [my usual first mistake!]. Bum. What am I missing? Why
won't
> the printer list update to show the contenct of rhsprinter.db?
>
> Please spare a second to help me out. I believe in the notion, power and
> future of Linux and I don't want to have to give it up and crawl back to
Bill's
> empire!
I don't have a direct answer, but I too consulted www.linux-printing.org,
and am going to be configuring another model Epson Stylus printer (an 870)
in the not tooo distant. I'm sure we'll get this sorted, email me private
if you'ld like to team up on this problem.
Mandrake has gone over to using CUPS for it's printer administration, in
which case the file used to make the printer known has almost certainly
changed from RH's /usr/lib/rhs/rhs-rinterfilters/printerdb. Have you
checked the distro documentation, how once you've configured Ghostscript for
your printer, you make this knowledge known? CUPS holds the promise of
making printing much easier than in the past, but it's not so well known,
and not so many ppl know much about it yet.
Following web sites may help :
http://www.linuxprinting.org/cups-doc.html (There's an example for
Ghostscript with an Epson at bottom)
I found some docs on CUPS & Mandrake using www.google.com/linux but
unfortunately I couldn't access them this morning, looks like the net is
playing up (it's probably an NTL problem).
This kind of thing is frustrating compared to the 'Have Disk' installation
of Windows, there are 2 reasons why it's harder. The main one is that
manufacturers haven't done the configuration work for Linux, secondly the
rapid pace of change and improvements, make it very hard to keep install
scripts and docs up to date.
Regards Rob
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