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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040124 Description of problem: The Epson Stylus CX-5400 printer is not available from the list of Epson printers. The CX-5400 was included in gimp-print and the other printing utils and databases some months ago before fedora test2 was out, but the system-config-printer still does not list the CX-5400. It is important to list the CX-5400 because its not like the CX-5200 which has a slower engine. The CX-5400 instead uses the C84 engine which does 22ppm instead of 12ppm. Thank you. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): system-config-printer 0.6.98-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. login as root 2. run system-config-printer 3. add new printer, select Epson, search list of CX-5400 Actual Results: The CX-5400 isn't there. Expected Results: The CX-5400 should be listed. Additional info: None.
You need to get it listed on www.linuxprinting.org, and then we can import the data into foomatic.
Its already listed.. it was added months ago: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Epson-Stylus_CX5400
Oops, I'd been looking for '4500' not '5400'. Thanks.
Please note; the document lists the usb id as '0x4b8 0x805' which is NOT correct. The correct usb id for the CX5400, as noted further down by the user comments, is: 0x4b8 0x808 Thank you, your quick responce is much appriciated.
Hmm, although the printer/Epson-Stylus_CX5400.xml file is there, its ID isn't listed in driver/gimp-print.xml. In fact -- it's already there in our foomatic package. So it looks like /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/driver/gimp-print-ijs.xml is just missing some lines like: <!-- gimp-print driver: escp2-c84 --> <printer> <id>printer/Epson-Stylus_C84</id> <margins> <general> <relative /> <left>9</left> <right>9</right> <top>0</top> <bottom>9</bottom> </general> </margins> </printer> Can you try that?
There is definetly something wrong here. I added the following (changed the CX5200 to CX5400, since its similar to the C84 lines above): <!-- gimp-print driver: escp2-cx5400 --> <printer> <id>printer/Epson-Stylus_CX5400</id> <margins> <general> <relative /> <left>9</left> <right>9</right> <top>0</top> <bottom>9</bottom> </general> </margins> </printer> Now, the CX5400 comes up in the system-redhat-config, unfortunately it seems its missing all its options under the "Driver Options" tab. If i select the C84 or the CX5200 (slower model), then under "Driver Options" there are a wide range of settings to select the different printing methods etc. When i added the above lines in gimp-print-ijs.xml, and selected the newly appeared CX5400 printer, those options are no longer there, instead there are just 5-6 generic options.
The ID will need adding to some of the files in opt/*.xml too then. This is something that will need to be fixed upstream in foomatic. (It's quite late for this sort of change before FC2 now though.) I've reported it upstream.
oh damn, i was hoping to get this working for FC2 :( thanks for the help though
The gimp-print.xml is a pseudo entry only telling that the Gimp-Print driver exists and which printers work with it. It does not produce any PPD files. The "real" Foomatic data for Gimp-Print is produced by Gimp-Print and therefore part of the Gimp-Print package. You have to compile Gimp-Print with the IJS interface (should be done automatically when libijs-devel is installed) and generation of Foomatic data (will be done automatically when Foomatic is installed on the system). The "make install" of Gimp-Print installs Foomatic data for the "gimp-print-ijs" driver which allows generating a PPD file also for the CX5400. The "gimp-print.xml" from Foomatic can be deleted then. Note that the "gimp-print.xml" on linuxprinting.org describes Gimp-Print 4.2.6 and the CX5400 support was introduced only in 4.2.7. So you should use the latest RC of 4.2.7.
So in other words, installing 4.2.7 will solve my problem and the printer will be detected and properly appear in the print manager? I checked FC2 test3 and its still using 4.2.6 :(
Yes, it should. And if the update deadline for FC2 is already over, I recommend that a Gimp-Print 4.2.7 update package should be put out, simply as ipdate to support the latest hardware.
I've been waiting to get this printer supported since the end of october 2003 when i was using FC1 test3 :( i opened a bug report back then and i was told the printer was 'added'. something which never happened i guess. an updated package would be much appriciated. thank you.
Thanks for the clarifications. Well, it's definitely too late to bump version numbers in packages for FC2.
Is it too late for FC3 test1?
gimp-print 4.2.7 has not yet been released.
As of the 15th of July, gimp-print 4.2.7 is out: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=8970417 :)
foomatic-3.0.1-7 will have the gimp-print 4.2.7 data.