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[windracer]

I'm trying to set up my Epson AcuLaser CX11NF with my new 4G Surf.

Quick network overview: 4G Surf -> wireless router -> wireless bridge -> Epson CX11NF

I can print to the Epson from the other wireless (Windows) PCs on my network. I've tried adding the printer with different connection methods: IPP, AppSocket, etc. using the Xandros-delivered CX11 driver. Once added, the print queue shows Idle. When I send a test page (or any print job), I can see the queue go "busy" the page is delivered, disappears from the queue, and the queue goes "idle" again ... but nothing ever prints. I've tried the generic postscript driver as well (same thing).

I do see this in my /var/log/cups/error_log whenever I submit a job:

E [19/Apr/2008:13:32:27 - 0400] [Job 20] No %%BoundingBox: comment in header!

I also see lines like this (not sure if they are normal or not):

E [19/Apr/2008:13:31:43 - 0400] CUPS-Accept-Jobs: Unauthorized
I've searched through the wiki and the forums, but haven't been able to figure this out yet. It doesn't seem like this should be this hard (I'm in Easy Mode, by the way).

Any ideas? Thanks!

[windracer]

*bump*

Anyone else using the CX11 with their Eee?

[shengchieh]

For any printer problem go to openprinting.org and search for your printer. In your case, see

http://openprinting....AcuLaser_CX11NF

If still stuck, tell us what you did and post your error message.

Sheng-Chieh

[windracer]

Thanks for the reply, but I finally figured it out!

I did some more digging and found a blog comment by someone having the same problem as me with their Eee PC and the CX11:

http://www.gedda.inf...2#comment-31707

His solution was to install bc, so I did 'sudo apt-get install bc' but was still having the same problem. I started poking around in the pstoalcx11.sh script and discovered that the following lines were choking:

Xdot=$(echo "a=$X600*$Resolution/600; scale=0; b=a/1; scale=4; c=a-b; if(c>0.4444) b+1 else b" | bc)
Ydot=$(echo "a=$Y600*$Resolution/600; scale=0; b=a/1; scale=4; c=a-b; if(c>0.4444) b+1 else b" | bc)

The $Resolution variable is passed in on the command line and contained values like '300dpi' or '600dpi' and the characters 'dpi' were causing the calculation being sent to bc to error out.

So I added the following line in the # Output resolution section:

# Output resolution.
Resolution="" && optvalue Resolution && Resolution=$VALUE && msglog "Resolution=$Resolution"

# 
# (04/22/2008, windracer) - fix to strip 'dpi' off of Resolution
#
Resolution="$(echo $Resolution | sed 's/dpi//')"

test -z "$Resolution" && msgerr "ERROR: $0: Un-known output resolution" && exit 1

And it works!

So Pete (the blog comment author) and myself may be the only two CX11/Eee PC users right now, but hopefully this thread comes in handy in the future. :D

edit: incidentally, during my searching I found another Eee PC user with the same problem on a German Eee PC user site (via Google's cache): http://209.85.207.10...lient=firefox-a. Not sure why they didn't have the $Resolution problem, unless it's something with the version of bc I installed?

Edited by windracer, 23 April 2008 - 02:46 AM.

[shira]

windracer,
your post SAVED me!! after 2 days of trying to get my EPSON Stylus CX4300 to print, surfing web forums endlessly etc. i finally found your post. manipulated the pstoalcx11.sh file the same way you did - and it works! :)
i can print from both open office and acrobat reader, as far as i've tried, and i am assuming all other applications will work fine as well. the printer is pretty slow though.. :/ but at least it works.
i am a complete linux newbee and this is the first time i have managed to set up a printer (and scanner) under linux. :cool:
again, thank you for figuring this out.
best,
shira

[windracer]

Excellent ... glad I was able to help someone else out!

[shira]

unfortunately, the printer stopped working again...
nothing prints, not even a test page.
i tried printing a pdf document from acroread, played around with printing margins a bit - and that was it, no more printing...
tried reinstalling the printer, searched the web for more info - nothing.
ANY ideas?!
thanks, shira

[plodr]

Is the printer networked? If so, maybe the address changed. Everytime I need to power down my router and modem, the printer address changes. I'll find the correct address and all of a sudden, things I wanted to print from a day ago start printing.