[CentOS] Centos/Fedora core won't talk to an Epson Workforce 600 printer

Wed Oct 22 16:44:33 UTC 2008
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Charles Campbell
<Charles.E.Campbell at nasa.gov> wrote:
> Charles Campbell wrote:

>> Has anyone had any luck getting CUPS to talk to an Epson Workforce 600
>> printer?  I got pipslite and eklite.ppd extracted (and modified it to use
>> Letter instead of A4) but I can't seem to get CUPS to talk succesfully with
>> the printer.  The printer configuration under Gnome widget does show that
>> CUPS detected something (pipslite:...) but when I try to use it I get a
>> wrapper error.  The wrapper itself is in binary so there's not much I can
>> make of it.  This was done with the Workforce600 in wireless mode.
>>
>> I've had no luck with various combinations so far with direct ethernet,
>> wireless ethernet, http:, ipp:, lpd, socket: attempts.

Well... according to the OpenPrinting database, it's not looking good:

http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Epson-Workforce_600

Akemi