printing troubles

[leverknight1]

i finaly tryed using my epson stylus 740 to print an image and when i clicked print it started like it was going to print the picture and then it started printing lines of code so, i checked the configuration and the printer control panel it is all set except for a ppd file.

I didn't know what it was for and so i didnt set one is it important and if so what is it for and where can i find the file for my printer?

[ordoni]

try installing CUPS.........it supports your printer


so after installing CUPS
.........settings
.............printing manager
.....................choose CUPS as print system
.............................add new printer
....................................go through the wizard

[leverknight1]

i have done so. i went through it twice cause i thought i might have set something wrong but it still did it.

[leverknight1]

i can print a test page but when i try to print a real document it prints code

[ordoni]

you select the right printer (the one you setup) when you print a document

[leverknight1]

yeah it is the only one on the network or directly hooked to the computer.

i cant explain why it doesnt work but my friend said he had the same trouble when he tryed to print on a network printer and he never got that fixed before the end of the semester he was able to use linux.

[junkman4547]

problem with filters maybe ?

[leverknight1]

the print it gives me says:

%! PS-Adobe-3.0
%%Creator: Print plug-in V4.2 for GIMP/Gimp-print 4.2.7 (15 Jul 2004)
%%CreationDate: Thu Aug 4 23:57:58 2005
%Copyright: 1997-2002 by Michael Sweet (mike@easysw.com) and Robert Krawitz (ril@alum.mit.edu)
%%BoundingBox: 23 36 563 756
%%DocumentData: Clean7Bit
%%LanguageLevel: 2
%%Pages: 1
%%Orientation: Portrait
%%endcoments
%%Page: 1 1
gsave
23 756 translate
0. 703 0.703 scale
/DeviceRGB setcolorspace
<<
/ImageType 1
/Width 768
/Height 1024
/BitsPerComponent 8
/Decode [ 0 1 0 1 0 1 ]
/DataSource currentfile /ASCII85Decode fliter
/ImageMatrix [ 1 0 0 -1 0 1 ]
>>
image

then it goes into gibberish and it prints like 5 pages of it

if that helps i hope it does cause i spent like 5 minutes typing it

[tomt]

Hi,
I had the same problem when trying to print from gimp. Swapped over to another program (kview? can't remember) and it printed okay on old Epson SC 440. Might work for you too.
Regards

[ordoni]

i get the similar thing when the computer is rebooting and the printer is on