Unable to print with SuSE 9.1 to Epson printers

[edwardp at operamail.com]

After upgrading SuSE Linux from 9.0 to 9.1, I've been unable at times to print anything to Epson Stylus Color printers.  

This occurred on two different systems, one has a Stylus Color 400 (system: Pentium/MMX 166 MHz, 98 Mb RAN, the other has a Stylus Color 640 (system: AMD K6-2 500 MHz, 520 Mb RAM).

What follows is part of the error log from the system with the SC 640.  Print jobs 1 and 2 are of the same page, sent by the Opera web browser.  Job 1 failed, jobs 2 through 4 printed successfully.  This also occurred when printing a PDF file from Adobe Acrobat Reader, so this is not specific to any one application.  

The only remedy so far that I found, was to remove SuSE 9.1 and reinstall 9.0, which has been done.

Is there anything in these logs which might indicate where the problem might have been?  

Thank you for any assistance.

I [05/Jul/2004:12:06:18 -0400] Adding start banner page "none" to job 1. 
I [05/Jul/2004:12:06:18 -0400] Adding end banner page "none" to job 1. 
I [05/Jul/2004:12:06:18 -0400] Job 1 queued on 'styluscolor640' by 'user1'
I [05/Jul/2004:12:06:18 -0400] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID
7029) for job 1. 
I [05/Jul/2004:12:06:18 -0400] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster
(PID 7030) for job 1. 
I [05/Jul/2004:12:06:18 -0400] Started filter
/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertoprinter (PID 7031) for job 1. 
I [05/Jul/2004:12:06:18 -0400] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel
(PID 7032) for job 1. 
E [05/Jul/2004:12:06:18 -0400] Bad request line "request id is styluscolor640-1
(1 file(s))"! 
E [05/Jul/2004:12:06:20 -0400] PID 7030 stopped with status 1! 
I [05/Jul/2004:12:06:20 -0400] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel to "debug" to
find out more. 
E [05/Jul/2004:12:06:20 -0400] [Job 1] No pages found! 
E [05/Jul/2004:12:06:20 -0400] PID 7031 stopped with status 1! 
I [05/Jul/2004:12:06:20 -0400] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel to "debug" to
find out more. 
 
I [05/Jul/2004:12:07:49 -0400] Adding start banner page "none" to job 2. 
I [05/Jul/2004:12:07:49 -0400] Adding end banner page "none" to job 2. 
I [05/Jul/2004:12:07:49 -0400] Job 2 queued on 'styluscolor640' by 'user1'
I [05/Jul/2004:12:07:49 -0400] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID
7039) for job 2. 
I [05/Jul/2004:12:07:49 -0400] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster
(PID 7040) for job 2. 
I [05/Jul/2004:12:07:49 -0400] Started filter
/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertoprinter (PID 7041) for job 2. 
I [05/Jul/2004:12:07:49 -0400] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel
(PID 7043) for job 2. 
E [05/Jul/2004:12:07:49 -0400] Bad request line "request id is styluscolor640-2
(1 file(s))"!
 
I [05/Jul/2004:12:09:31 -0400] Adding start banner page "none" to job 3. 
I [05/Jul/2004:12:09:31 -0400] Adding end banner page "none" to job 3. 
I [05/Jul/2004:12:09:31 -0400] Job 3 queued on 'styluscolor640' by 'user1'
E [05/Jul/2004:12:09:31 -0400] Bad request line "request id is styluscolor640-3
(1 file(s))"! 
I [05/Jul/2004:12:09:54 -0400] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID
7047) for job 3. 
I [05/Jul/2004:12:09:54 -0400] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster
(PID 7048) for job 3. 
I [05/Jul/2004:12:09:54 -0400] Started filter
/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertoprinter (PID 7049) for job 3. 
I [05/Jul/2004:12:09:54 -0400] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel
(PID 7050) for job 3. 
 
I [05/Jul/2004:12:15:05 -0400] Adding start banner page "none" to job 4. 
I [05/Jul/2004:12:15:05 -0400] Adding end banner page "none" to job 4. 
I [05/Jul/2004:12:15:05 -0400] Job 4 queued on 'styluscolor640' by 'user1'
I [05/Jul/2004:12:15:05 -0400] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/ogonki (PID
7088) for job 4. 
I [05/Jul/2004:12:15:05 -0400] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID
7089) for job 4. 
I [05/Jul/2004:12:15:05 -0400] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster
(PID 7090) for job 4. 
I [05/Jul/2004:12:15:05 -0400] Started filter
/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertoprinter (PID 7091) for job 4. 
I [05/Jul/2004:12:15:05 -0400] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel
(PID 7092) for job 4.
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