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Gregg Young | 5 Jul 2010 00:55
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EPSON Stylus C66

Hi

I just tried ecups for the first time. I have a Epson Stylus C66 color
printer which only works in draft mode with the omni drivers. I first
tried the 003 wpi and while it worked the output quality wasn't very
good. I then updated to cups 1.4.4. The result was a very high quality
output. While the quality differences might be related to different 
default setting, I found the quality of the black printing much worse 
than the color in the original. I also updated gutenprint to 5.2.5. I 
will summarize the problems I encountered and the work a rounds.

The initial install had several problems:

1. The system attempted to open the inf file in my text editor instead
of view.(INFs are associated with view).
2. The web browser opened to the Ecups home but the result was that
warpin hung without finishing until the browser was closed.
3. It would be nice if USBCalls was part of the wpi so usb.exe would 
work without tracking down additional software.

Overall it worked quite well.

I then unziped 1.4.4 over the cups directory after I thought I had shut 
cupsd down. I ultimate noticed that as many as 5 copies were running at 
one point and I always have a minimum of 2. Is this as expected? The 5 
occurred before I added the working directory to the object after which 
I only saw 2. I rebooted after removing the cupsd object from the 
startup folder and got all of 1.4.4 installed.

I then installed gutenprint 5.2.5. I unziped it over the gutenprint
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Paul Smedley | 5 Jul 2010 12:09
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Re: Kyocera-Mita FS C5100DN will not import into ecups.drv

Hi Derrick,

On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:56:24 UTC, Derrick Price 
<derrick.price@...> wrote:
> I have made some progress with this but only of a diagnostic sort. At 
> the point in the ecups printer driver install process when I click 'Job 
> Properties', nothing happens. I have compared with the import into the 
> IBM pscript.drv and there the job properties panel is correctly displayed.
Please try using http://smedley.info/ecups-driver-20100705.zip to 
import into.

This is the same code as the March 2009 release, but has NO other PPD 
files imported into it.

There are some issues in the IBM code where the driver gets 'maxxed 
out' if too many PPD files are imported - both the march 09 ecups.drv 
and the 2010 ecups-hp are near this limit.

I'm thinking that in future, some kind of 'wizard' that scans 
\cups\etc\cups\ppd and looks for the actual PPD files that are 
installed by the user, and imports these into ecups.drv is a better 
solution than trying to supply driver packs with 100's of ppd files 
already included.

> When I try to print, (I used the Flexedit editor in FileStar) the 
> following problem then occurs:
> 
> Access violation at CS:EIP = 0x005b:1daa7393
> Thread: 6 Name: ObjEditor
> Executable name: G;\FileStarV3\FS_V300.EXE
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Paul Smedley | 5 Jul 2010 12:13
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Re: EPSON Stylus C66

Hi Gregg!

On Sun, 4 Jul 2010 22:55:17 UTC, Gregg Young 
<ygk@...> wrote:

> I just tried ecups for the first time. I have a Epson Stylus C66 color
> printer which only works in draft mode with the omni drivers. I first
> tried the 003 wpi and while it worked the output quality wasn't very
> good. I then updated to cups 1.4.4. The result was a very high quality
> output. While the quality differences might be related to different 
> default setting, I found the quality of the black printing much worse 
> than the color in the original. I also updated gutenprint to 5.2.5. I 
> will summarize the problems I encountered and the work a rounds.
Great that you got things working.  Strange that there is a major 
difference between Gutenprint 5.2.4 and 5.2.5 as the C66 is a fairly 
old printer isn't it?

> The initial install had several problems:
> 
> 1. The system attempted to open the inf file in my text editor instead
> of view.(INFs are associated with view).
> 2. The web browser opened to the Ecups home but the result was that
> warpin hung without finishing until the browser was closed.
Wonder if Pete can fix these in the wpi.

Pete - how is the web browser started? I wonder if some approach like 
using 'start' can be used to spawn a separate process and allow warpin
to continue.

> 3. It would be nice if USBCalls was part of the wpi so usb.exe would
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Derrick Price | 5 Jul 2010 18:31
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Re: Kyocera-Mita FS C5100DN will not import into ecups.drv

Paul Smedley wrote:
> Hi Derrick,
> 
> On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:56:24 UTC, Derrick Price 
> <derrick.price@...> wrote:
>> I have made some progress with this but only of a diagnostic sort. At 
>> the point in the ecups printer driver install process when I click 'Job 
>> Properties', nothing happens. I have compared with the import into the 
>> IBM pscript.drv and there the job properties panel is correctly displayed.
> Please try using http://smedley.info/ecups-driver-20100705.zip to 
> import into.
> 
> This is the same code as the March 2009 release, but has NO other PPD 
> files imported into it.
> 
> There are some issues in the IBM code where the driver gets 'maxxed 
> out' if too many PPD files are imported - both the march 09 ecups.drv 
> and the 2010 ecups-hp are near this limit.
> 
> I'm thinking that in future, some kind of 'wizard' that scans 
> \cups\etc\cups\ppd and looks for the actual PPD files that are 
> installed by the user, and imports these into ecups.drv is a better 
> solution than trying to supply driver packs with 100's of ppd files 
> already included.
> 
>> When I try to print, (I used the Flexedit editor in FileStar) the 
>> following problem then occurs:
>>
>> Access violation at CS:EIP = 0x005b:1daa7393
>> Thread: 6 Name: ObjEditor
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Pete Brown | 5 Jul 2010 19:24

Re: EPSON Stylus C66

Hi Paul and Gregg

Paul Smedley wrote:
> Hi Gregg!
>
> On Sun, 4 Jul 2010 22:55:17 UTC, Gregg Young
> <ygk@...>  wrote:
>
>> I just tried ecups for the first time. I have a Epson Stylus C66 color
>> printer which only works in draft mode with the omni drivers. I first
>> tried the 003 wpi and while it worked the output quality wasn't very
>> good. I then updated to cups 1.4.4. The result was a very high quality
>> output. While the quality differences might be related to different
>> default setting, I found the quality of the black printing much worse
>> than the color in the original. I also updated gutenprint to 5.2.5. I
>> will summarize the problems I encountered and the work a rounds.
> Great that you got things working.  Strange that there is a major
> difference between Gutenprint 5.2.4 and 5.2.5 as the C66 is a fairly
> old printer isn't it?
>
>> The initial install had several problems:
>>
>> 1. The system attempted to open the inf file in my text editor instead
>> of view.(INFs are associated with view).

Well, that is something different and I have no idea why it is happening...

I've had a look at the ecups install script used and cannot see how this 
would happen. These are the Warpin Script lines relating to the INF file:-
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Gregg Young | 5 Jul 2010 19:32
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Re: A CUPS 1.3.11 issue...

Peter wrote:
> Hi Pete,
> 
>>> Now... I have a second machine with the port driver installed so I
>>> ASSUME it HAS to use the REAL Network hostname to be able to find the
>>> CUPS Printer?
>   <snip>
>> Sorry, never had to share a cups printer - my printer hangs off the 
>> print server built into my router so is accessed by all machines on the 
>> network without sharing.
>>
>> If I had to have a go at sharing a printer I think I would start with 
>> sharing the OS/2 printer object on system1 and installing a "network" 
>> printer from the eCUPS printer drivers on system2 to access the shared 
>> printer. That way there would be no need for CUPS or the port on 
>> system2; the system2 OS/2 printer should pass the output to the OS/2 
>> printer on system1 which would then run it through CUPS on system1.
>>
>> As I may have previously indicated I have no idea if that will work ... 
>> but don't see why it would not.
> 
> Solved!  You don't need a new CUPS install at all, just the port 
> driver that points to the real CUPS Server and the printer queue. The 
> problem was not in fact a CUPS/Printer configuration issue.

Hi

I tried to set this up using the port driver and it didn't work. What 
print driver are you using when you create the printer object? I tried 
the NULL driver and the CUPS driver moved from the machine where the
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Gregg Young | 5 Jul 2010 20:23
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Re: EPSON Stylus C66

Paul Smedley wrote:
> Hi Gregg!
> 
> On Sun, 4 Jul 2010 22:55:17 UTC, Gregg Young 
> <ygk@...> wrote:
> 
>> I just tried ecups for the first time. I have a Epson Stylus C66 color
>> printer which only works in draft mode with the omni drivers. I first
>> tried the 003 wpi and while it worked the output quality wasn't very
>> good. I then updated to cups 1.4.4. The result was a very high quality
>> output. While the quality differences might be related to different 
>> default setting, I found the quality of the black printing much worse 
>> than the color in the original. I also updated gutenprint to 5.2.5. I 
>> will summarize the problems I encountered and the work a rounds.
> Great that you got things working.  Strange that there is a major 
> difference between Gutenprint 5.2.4 and 5.2.5 as the C66 is a fairly 
> old printer isn't it?

The major difference was between cups 1.3.11 and 1.4.4. The gutenprint 
difference might well have been default settings. The C66 was the first 
of the C6* series that didn't work with the OMNI drivers. It is probably 
10 years old.

> 
>> The initial install had several problems:
>>
>> 1. The system attempted to open the inf file in my text editor instead
>> of view.(INFs are associated with view).
>> 2. The web browser opened to the Ecups home but the result was that
>> warpin hung without finishing until the browser was closed.
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Gregg Young | 5 Jul 2010 22:23
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Re: EPSON Stylus C66

Pete Brown wrote:
> Hi Paul and Gregg
> 
> Paul Smedley wrote:
>> Hi Gregg!
>>
>> On Sun, 4 Jul 2010 22:55:17 UTC, Gregg Young
>> <ygk@...>  wrote:
>>
>>> I just tried ecups for the first time. I have a Epson Stylus C66 color
>>> printer which only works in draft mode with the omni drivers. I first
>>> tried the 003 wpi and while it worked the output quality wasn't very
>>> good. I then updated to cups 1.4.4. The result was a very high quality
>>> output. While the quality differences might be related to different
>>> default setting, I found the quality of the black printing much worse
>>> than the color in the original. I also updated gutenprint to 5.2.5. I
>>> will summarize the problems I encountered and the work a rounds.
>> Great that you got things working.  Strange that there is a major
>> difference between Gutenprint 5.2.4 and 5.2.5 as the C66 is a fairly
>> old printer isn't it?
>>
>>> The initial install had several problems:
>>>
>>> 1. The system attempted to open the inf file in my text editor instead
>>> of view.(INFs are associated with view).
> 
> 
> Well, that is something different and I have no idea why it is happening...
> 
> I've had a look at the ecups install script used and cannot see how this
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Pete Brown | 6 Jul 2010 01:42

Re: EPSON Stylus C66

Hi Gregg

Gregg Young wrote:
> Pete Brown wrote:

----- big snip -----

>>
>> I do not know but suspect that the CUPS Modify Printer routine may be
>> used, probably as a background process, to identify the PPD file(s) in
>> \cups\etc\cups\ppd and then update it(them) with the later version(s).
>>
>> Not having a Mac/*nix system I cannot put the above theory to the test
>> but...
>>
>> If after updating Gutenprint you run the cups browser interface and go
>> through the Modify Printer process and leave everything as it was but
>> select to install the same PPD filename the PPD file gets changed to
>> the new version.
>>
>> I guess it must be possible to do that via a script but I have not yet
>> spotted any way of calling Modify Printer from a script. Maybe a long
>> perusal of cups docs will enlighten me. If I discover how to do this I
>> will add an update PPD file script to the Gutenprint WPI package.
>
> I can't image that the web browser is anything more than an interface
> for providing the parameters to the program that actually modifies it.
> It appears a temp file is generated in \cups\var\spool\cups of the form
> 000017 which appears to be passed to or used to determine the ppd needed
> for \cups\lib\cups\daemon\cups-driverd.exe the file is then renamed to
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Paul Smedley | 6 Jul 2010 03:08
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Re: Re: Kyocera-Mita FS C5100DN will not import into ecups.drv

Hi Derrick,

Derrick Price wrote:
> Paul Smedley wrote:
>> Hi Derrick,
>>
>> On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:56:24 UTC, Derrick Price 
>> <derrick.price@...> wrote:
>>> I have made some progress with this but only of a diagnostic sort. At 
>>> the point in the ecups printer driver install process when I click 
>>> 'Job Properties', nothing happens. I have compared with the import 
>>> into the IBM pscript.drv and there the job properties panel is 
>>> correctly displayed.
>> Please try using http://smedley.info/ecups-driver-20100705.zip to 
>> import into.
>>
>> This is the same code as the March 2009 release, but has NO other PPD 
>> files imported into it.
>>
>> There are some issues in the IBM code where the driver gets 'maxxed 
>> out' if too many PPD files are imported - both the march 09 ecups.drv 
>> and the 2010 ecups-hp are near this limit.
>>
>> I'm thinking that in future, some kind of 'wizard' that scans 
>> \cups\etc\cups\ppd and looks for the actual PPD files that are 
>> installed by the user, and imports these into ecups.drv is a better 
>> solution than trying to supply driver packs with 100's of ppd files 
>> already included.
>>
>>> When I try to print, (I used the Flexedit editor in FileStar) the
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