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dhs

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Registered: 2014-02-25

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[SOLVED] Epson prints blank pages - CUPS

When I set out to install my Epson ET-3950 printer on my new desktop computer, CUPS found the printer immediately and showed no error messages while adding the printer.  I started with the lpd backend.  When I tried it, the printer produced nothing but blank pages.  So, I tried the socket backend.  No problems setting it up, but same result.  So, I tried the ipp backend -- but CUPS said "No IPP attributes".
So, I'm stuck.  Any help much appreciated.

Last edited by dhs (Yesterday 20:04:53)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Epson prints blank pages - CUPS

The printer is in https://www.pwg.org/printers/ so supports https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CUPS#A … Everywhere and you should preferably use that (nb. the code snippet there is an example and will very most likely not work literally)

Other than that libcupsfilters clusterfuckedup™ starting  w/ the 2.2.1 release this august and currently inches back to sanity. Make sure that the system is up to date and then try to downgrade libcupsfilters and possibly cups-filters which had the universal filter disabled in response to the forementioned clusterfuck.

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dhs

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Registered: 2014-02-25

Posts: 23

Re: [SOLVED] Epson prints blank pages - CUPS

That did it. Thanks.