How to make Epson C66 printer work?

[stacy]

Hello I'm new to puppy linux and I have a epson c66 photo edition printer....

and it won't work wiv linux i have loads of work 2 do uni work and things

can anyone help me..... every other epson is on list but not mine:(

can anyone please please help

stacy xxx

[Mas Adhi]

Try Wizard and select one step Upper / Lower Series of your Printer.

I Use Epson Stylus C45, and I Use the C44ux Driver and it work

Hope it help You

[muggins]

and if previous post doesn't work, here's link to linuxprinting for your printer, and link to rarsa's work on cups:

http://linuxprinting.org/show_printer.c ... Stylus_C66

http://www.murga.org/%7Epuppy/viewtopic ... 49&start=0

[ecomoney]

Hi all

As I know Stacy (well done my little puppy linux prodigy!!!) I have been trying to sort this out for her.

Have researched CUPS and the valuable work by Rarsa/Dewdrop. Apparently the x1150 is compatible with the Lexmark Z600 series printer. I have been following the instructions to get this set up using this link

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... did=108534

the problem I have is in getting the .sh file that is extracted to run so I can get to the 2 rpm files. Hopefilly I will be able to "unrpm" them to extract the .pdd files that CUPS needs.

When I try and run the self extracting file I get the following

# sh z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh
Verifying archive integrity...tail: +6: No such file or directory
cksum: No such file or directory
[: argument expected
OK
Uncompressing Lexmark Printer Drivertrap: cd /tmp; /bin/rm -rf $tmpdir; exit $res: bad trap

z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh: ./install: No such file or directory
The program returned an error code (127)

apparently it is a self extracing archive created by a program called "makeself" that doesnt seem to run on puppy. Tried installing "unmakeself" that will unarchive the files inside without running the script but it seems to be a BSD only program(?).

Anyway this is where we are at, would someone extract that to the rpm and post a link?/explain how to get the self extrating script working.

Somehow I think this is going beyond beginners help!

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[muggins]

ecomoney,

i'm a bit baffled how we got from an epson c66 to a lexmark z600, (via x1150?), but anyway, makeself scripts do run on puppy, & are a way of having a self-extracting archive, or self-installing package. as it probably created a temporary install directory, under /tmp, can you copy relevant files from there?

or, use rarsa's scripts to download & install cups.

[MU]

you need tail:
http://noforum.de/dotpups/tail-mdk.tgz

extract to /bin

It will be lost when you reboot.

Also try
bash z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh
not
sh z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh

Tell me, if you still get errors.

Mark

[MU]

this seems to work:
Install http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Programming/tcltk-8.3.pup

download:
http://www.downloaddelivery.com/srfilec ... 0-1.TAR.gz

extract it like this:
tail +143 z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh | gzip -cd | tar xvof - | (while read a; do $echo -n .; done; echo; )

Start installer:
./install

Then a window opens telling me it can't proceed, as I have no printer attached (which is true).
Mark

[MU]

the installer seems not to work, as Puppy has no RPM-database.
I extracted the RPMs, and made a dotpup.
I also ran ldconfig to create missing links.
Maybe the files work with Rarsas Cups, but I don't know if it uses the same folders.
I also don't know, if the installer does something else than extracting.
If you have luck, cups will just grab the drivers and do the rest for you.

I never used cups, so no idea.

Here is the filelist:

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sh-3.00# ls -lR
.:
drwx------    6 root     root         4096 May  1 04:12 usr

./usr:
drwx------    3 root     root         4096 May  1 03:44 include
drwx------    3 root     root         4096 May  1 03:54 lib
drwx------    3 root     root         4096 May  1 03:44 local
drwx------    3 root     root         4096 May  1 03:44 share

./usr/include:
drwx------    2 root     root         4096 May  1 03:44 lexmark

./usr/include/lexmark:
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         1508 May  1 03:44 alignmentdata.h
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         4124 May  1 03:44 cartridgemanager.h
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         1772 May  1 03:44 cartridgeuserinterface.h
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         1336 May  1 03:44 cleaningdata.h
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         3441 May  1 03:44 clock.h
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         5594 May  1 03:44 errorcommunicator.h
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         1944 May  1 03:44 linuxinkjetprinter.h
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         3934 May  1 03:44 mediamanager.h
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         6430 May  1 03:44 portmonitor.h
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         3070 May  1 03:44 printerdevice.h
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         3536 May  1 03:44 printjobmanager.h

./usr/lib:
drwx------    4 root     root         4096 May  1 03:44 cups
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       100064 May  1 03:54 liblexprinter.a
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          741 May  1 03:54 liblexprinter.la
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           22 May  1 03:54 liblexprinter.so.0 -> liblexprinter.so.0.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        76780 May  1 03:54 liblexprinter.so.0.0.0
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        31578 May  1 03:54 liblexprintjob.a
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          748 May  1 03:54 liblexprintjob.la
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           23 May  1 03:54 liblexprintjob.so.0 -> liblexprintjob.so.0.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        25579 May  1 03:54 liblexprintjob.so.0.0.0
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      2254574 May  1 03:54 liblexz600core.a
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          748 May  1 03:54 liblexz600core.la
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           23 May  1 03:54 liblexz600core.so.0 -> liblexz600core.so.0.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      1381164 May  1 03:54 liblexz600core.so.0.0.0

./usr/lib/cups:
drwx------    2 root     root         4096 May  1 03:44 backend
drwx------    2 root     root         4096 May  1 03:44 filter

./usr/lib/cups/backend:
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       119011 May  1 03:44 z600

./usr/lib/cups/filter:
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        97862 May  1 03:44 rastertoz600

./usr/local:
drwx------    3 root     root         4096 May  1 03:44 z600llpddk

./usr/local/z600llpddk:
drwx------    2 root     root         4096 May  1 03:44 utility

./usr/local/z600llpddk/utility:
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      1440768 May  1 03:44 bnsi1.lut
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      1440768 May  1 03:44 bnsi2.lut
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      1440768 May  1 03:44 bnsi3.lut
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      1080498 May  1 03:44 lxbcalgn.out
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       654780 May  1 03:44 lxbccln.out

./usr/share:
drwx------    3 root     root         4096 May  1 03:44 cups

./usr/share/cups:
drwx------    2 root     root         4096 May  1 03:44 model

./usr/share/cups/model:
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         2549 May  1 03:44 Lexmark-Z600-lxz600cj-cups.ppd.gz

Download:
http://dotpups.de/tests/CJZ600LE-CUPS-1 ... racted.pup (3.8 MB)

Mark

[rarsa]

It's funny (until someone gets hurt)

That is the driver I first used to test CUPS with my printer. Actually that's the only driver I've used with CUPS.

I was a few minutes ago searching for my notes on how to install it as I wanted to try it in Pup2 April28.

I'll do both things, Test MU's dotpup and find my notes.

[ecomoney]

Cheers everyone for the response! Much obliged to you all.

Will try all of these things out asap. Just to let you know, we started out with a Epson Stylus C66 (Stacy's origional Printer) and we borrowed a Lexmark 1150 because that wouldnt work - its this printer that apparently uses the z600 driver to work. Sorry for not making that clear.

P.S. I have just signed my company up with 14 months of Servage server hosting. It really was the best deal out there and only too glad to help the puppy project as well. Even with the occaisional hardware incompatibility - it has still saved us no end of lost productivity over our previous windoze development environment. Thanks again to the puppy team!!!