Bug 246741

Summary:	Locally connected Epson printers fail to print in Fedora 3
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Component:	foomatic	Assignee:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	4.0
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Hardware:	i686
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	RHBA-2007-0708	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Tim Waugh 2007-07-04 15:04:20 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #139629 +++

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Description of problem:
# printtool
No match for USB device:
  mfr "EPSON"
  model "Stylus COLOR 777"
  desc "EPSON Stylus COLOR 777"
  cmdset "ESCPL2,BDC,D4"
Please report this message in Bugzilla:
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
Choose 'foomatic' as the component.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
foomatic-3.0.2-3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Update to Fedora Core 3.0
2. Printing fails
3.Invoke printtool as root
    

Actual Results:  The Epson Stylus 777 connected via USB to
/dev/usb/lp0 is rcognized but fails to print. 
Ditto with a parallel port connection to /dev/lp0
The error message above appears when invoking printtool 

Expected Results:  Printing, as before in Fedora Core 2. 

Additional info:

Printing to a networked printer works, but not with the tes-page from
printtool.

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2007-07-04 15:15:44 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2007-11-15 16:01:05 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2007-0708.html