epson stylus photo r200

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 13 September 2004 12:02, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
>hello,
>i'm using CUPS as my print system and KDE's printer control center
> module to setup printing.  the problem is that my printer isn't
> listed in the "Printer Model Selection" dialog.
>
>i read in the archives that updating to gimp-print-4.2.7 and also
> foomatic would solve the problem.  but i have a few questions about
> that.  will that help when setting up CUPS or just only when using
> the redhat printer config program?  do i need to update gimp-print
> or gimp-print-cups?  also, where can i find these RPMs?  they
> aren't on the gimp-print sourceforge page.
>
>thanks for the help.

Generally speaking, that family of software can be installed from 
tarballs.  Instead of using 'make install' as the final step, use 
checkinstall, very latest (1.60-beta3) version, to actually do an rpm 
installation.  I've done that here.  But if you have yum enabled for 
automatic updates, add cups*, gimp-print*, and gutenprint* to the 
exclude list.  Otherwise yum has been known to downgrade my cups 
install to one that totally breaks kde.

You would be advised to join the gimp-print list, there has been quite 
an extended discussion of the r200 and cousins recently.

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