[WBEL-users] Re: Epson Stylus Color 1160

[Francies Moore]

Kirby C. Bohling wrote:

>On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 03:44:27PM +0100, liz@indract.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
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>>Hi everyone
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>>Has anyone any experience of using the Epson Stylus Color 1160 with Linux (WBEL in particular).
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>>I have acquired one which was not working at all with Windoze and
>>have just attached it to my WBEL server.  It prints but the CUPS
>>test page is not laid out correctly and very messy.  The nearest
>>driver I could find for it in the system is the 980 and googling
>>seems no good for once. :-(
>>
>>It would be nice to be able to get it working properly then I
>>could share it over Samba.
>>
>>Any help would be appreciated!
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>This site:
>http://linuxprinting.org
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>and this link in particular:
>http://linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Epson-Stylus_Color_1160
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>Hopefully should show you what you want to know.  I've generally
>figured out with their help how to configure printers I otherwise
>couldn't.  The one thing that looks like it's useful to know, is
>that it should be capable of working perfectly.
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>	Thanks,
>		Kirby
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Thank you Kirby!

It does work perfectly. This is what I finally did from information on 
that link:

First of all set up The Gimp.
Open an image. Right click and choose File, Print. Choose Set up 
Printer, choose Epson 1160. Once the printer is set up, try to print the 
image. If it is OK, click Save Settings.
Follow the add new printer instructions from gimp-print webpage
Open the CUPS configuration page at 127.0.0.1:631/admin
It might say something like printer must be installed using redhat 
printer config but ignore this and go ahead anyway.
The Epson Stylus Colour 1160 will be listed in the Model/Driver for stp 
dialog box. Choose this and Continue. The printer should now be 
available in CUPS.
Well, it was for me.... (www.thelinuxbox.me.uk/testpage.jpg).
I avoided command line setup as my tutor said it was best for 
inexperienced users to use the GUI!
Now I only need to delete the original print queue that didn't work ....

Regards,

Francies