On 06/07/2015 10:00 PM, Al Russell wrote:
> I am trying to get an Epson WF-2540 networked printer working with my SL 6.6
> installation. I have downloaded the requisite driver package
>
> epson-inkjet-printer-201211w-1.0.0-1lsb3.2.x86_64.rpm
>
> from Epson and it installed without problem. The printer was installed using
> system-config-printer and is recognized by the system as the only/default
> printer. Among other things the ink levels are reported as expected for the
> printer.
>      However, when I try to print a test page it fails and the state reported
> by CUPS is
>
>
> stopped
> "/opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201211w/cups/lib/filter/epson_inkjet_printer_filter
> failed"
>
> Attempts to print from LibreOffice and emacs also fail.
>
> Running system-config-printer, selecting the printer, and trying to print a
> test page shows the following.
>
> # system-config-printer
> /usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py:2733: GtkWarning:
> Failed to set text from markup due to error parsing markup: Error on line 1:
> Entity did not end with a semicolon; most likely you used an ampersand
> character without intending to start an entity - escape ampersand as &
>    frame.get_label_widget().set_use_markup(True)
> /usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py:2735: GtkWarning:
> Failed to set text from markup due to error parsing markup: Error on line 1:
> Entity did not end with a semicolon; most likely you used an ampersand
> character without intending to start an entity - escape ampersand as &
>    self.vbPOptions.pack_start (frame, False, False, 0)
> /usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py:988: GtkWarning:
> Failed to set text from markup due to error parsing markup: Error on line 1:
> Entity did not end with a semicolon; most likely you used an ampersand
> character without intending to start an entity - escape ampersand as &
>    self.PrinterPropertiesDialog.show ()
>
> Can anyone suggest what I should do next?
>
> For comparison I installed the printer on an SL 7.1 system and have no
> problems. It works flawlessly on SL 7.1. But there are differences:
> system-config-printer is a later version than on SL 6.6 and it was not
> necessary to independently get the driver. The driver is available in the
> standard SL7 installation.
>

What's in /var/log/cups/*_logs ?

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