CUPS - No form feed with Epson and FC5

Gerald B. Cox gbcox at bzb.us
Mon Apr 17 19:41:27 UTC 2006


Yes, I double checked and am using the R300 driver (the same name
which worked correctly when I was running FC4).  Also verified that
the form length was correct.  I did do an upgrade however, instead of
a fresh install.  I also tried deleting and recreating the print queue.
Didn't seem to help.  Has anyone tried with a R300?


Quoting Temlakos <temlakos at gmail.com>:

> Thad Nielsen wrote:
>> Gerald B. Cox [gbcox at bzb.us] wrote:
>>
>>> I been working through FC5 upgrade issues and just noticed another.
>>>
>>> I have an Epson Photo R300 Printer.  I noticed that when
>>> I print the CUPS test page, or print from an application such as GNUMERIC
>>> or ABIWORD, the page doesn't eject from the printer when done.    
>>> The  only way the page is ejected is I either turn the printer off  
>>>  then  back on, or if I start another print job.  If I start   
>>> another print  job, the spacing for that next job is messed up.
>>>
>>> I did notice in properties for the print queue there is a setting   
>>> for "Send a FF" which wasn't checked.  I tried selecting that, but  
>>>  it  doesn't make any difference.
>>>
>>> If I print from within GIMP however, things appear to work normally.
>>>
>>> I didn't have a problem with FC4 - everything worked fine.
>>>
>>> Has anyone else noticed this?  Should I enter a bug report?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>
>> I have a different Epson on FC5 (fresh install, not upgrade) and I
>> have no problems printing from Abiword, OpenOffice, etc.  Might you
>> have selected the wrong driver (one that thinks your printer's form
>> length is different than it is)?  Alternately, did you check the form
>> before printing (perhaps it defaults to A4 instead of Letter, e.g.)?
>>
>> 	T.
>>
>
> Good point. Recently I acquired an Epson Stylus Photo RX-700, and
> couldn't find a driver with that specific name. It took me two days,
> and a lot of wasted time on print jobs that sent nothing but formfeeds
> to the new printer, before I settled on a driver that worked. It was
> the one for the Epson Stylus Photo 700 (without the RX prefix).
>
> Perhaps you're suffering from the same problem--that someone's naming
> conventions are at fault.
>
> Temlakos
>
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