EPSON EPL-6200L attached to Dlink DP-301P+ printserver doesn't work

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EPSON EPL-6200L attached to Dlink DP-301P+ printserver doesn't work

hey guys, i've just installed the printserver and it works perfectly with my windows xp machine, however i'm having alot of trouble things to work on my macbook pro.

Here's what i've been doing so far:
i go to printer/fax, add a new printer.
I type in the ip address and it detects everything. Then i change the "generic postscript driver" to the correct EPL-6200L driver that is included in leopard.

I try and print a test page and nothing happens. The printer monitor pops up and lets me know its sending, but my printer never actually starts up.

MacBook Pro 1.83GHZ, Mac OS X (10.5.2), W8615

Posted on Mar 27, 2008 3:18 AM

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greg sahli

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Mar 27, 2008 4:59 AM in response to Maos

There are two kinds of print driver on OS X - Carbon and CUPS. CUPS is what Apple is moving to, and that will give us drivers that work with any comm protocol (like on Windows). But the manufacturers like to provide us Carbon drivers, because they can control which comm protocol the driver works with. Your Epson-provided (included in OS X) driver is a Carbon driver, written to only use USB.
You need a CUPS driver.
I don't have experience using this, but here is a link to a potential CUPS driver:
http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Epson-EPL-6200L
You download the driver from here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/epsonepl/
You install ghostscript and foomatic from here:
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/MacOSX/foomatic

That's about as close as I can get you. Good luck.

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Maos Author

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Mar 27, 2008 8:12 AM in response to greg sahli

hey i've downloaded the linked software. i'm compiling the EPSONEPL driver but in terminal, when i type ./configure, i get this error:

checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

what should i do?

im not even sure if this is the right course of action. I'm supposed to try and get a 'ppd' file and i don't even know if what i'm trying to do now has anything to do with getting a ppd.

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greg sahli

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Mar 27, 2008 11:51 AM in response to Maos

Your PPD file is in a folder that came in the .gzipped download.
Yes, I think you're supposed to compile something, but I haven't tried that.
Sorry I'm not more help -- maybe Matt Broughton will come by and help.

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Mar 27, 2008 5:27 PM in response to Maos

Maos wrote:
in terminal, when i type ./configure, i get this error:

checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

Did you install XCode? XCode and therefore the compiler are not part of a default installation. They are on every Mac OS X install disk, but you need to install them separately.

I did get a chance to look at this driver. It does not compile straight away. I had no problem getting the configure script to run, but 'make' immediately had errors.

This is an older package. It looks like it wants to find specific things in a Linux kernel or via libusb. It may be just a matter of installing libusb, but I am not familiar with it to tell you whether that would solve your problems. At this point, I am not sure whether there is an easy fix or whether more complex changes need to be made to the Makefile or code to get it to work in OS X.

If you have had some previous compiling experience, you can try adding libusb and then try 'configure and make'. You also might get some help on the Unix forum _ http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=735_

Matt

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