Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 175685
Printing fails with EPSON Stylus C42
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:19 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: Running system-config-printer gives this output: No match for USB device: mfr "EPSON" model "Stylus C42" desc "EPSON Stylus C42" cmdset "ESCPL2,BDC,D4" Although system-config-printer allows me to select the Epson stylus C42UX driver, it just does not seem to want to work. I get nothing but blank pages, and then the printer 'stops'. I have to power-cycle printer just to get my PC to recognise it again. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): foomatic-3.0.2-19 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install FC4 2. Connect Epson printer to USB port 3. Run system-config-printer as root Actual Results: system-config-printer gave the above error message. Printer did not work correctly. Expected Results: Printer should be recognised and work correctly. Additional info:
The warning message will no longer occur in FC5. How are you printing? Did you try printing a test page using system-config-printer, or something else?
Yes, I was using system-config-printer. Invoking the command gives the message; trying to print a test page from the GUI displayed causes the printer to suddenly stop.
Please attach the output of 'printconf-tui --Xexport'. Thanks.
Attached is a file with the printconf-tui output. I have resolved the printer stopping problem. My PC has USB type A connections, but the printer has a type B connector. I replaced the USB A->B cable I was using with a new one and the printer seems to work fine now. John.
Created attachment 122729 [details] printconf output
Closing, as it was a hardware problem. Thanks for letting us know.