CUPS & Epsin Stylus Photo 870

Hi there!

I have heavy problems getting cups to operate with my Epson Stylus photo 870 
printer.

The first problem is, that it alwyas says "Media tray empty!", although 
there's enough paper in the tray. The status flags are 0x18 (returned by 
LPGETSTATUS) in the normal case (i.e. printer ready, enough paper), and 
cups interprets this as "No paper" and "Printer Error". So I commented out 
the lines checking the status in cups's source for the usb-driver 
(backend/usb.c). But this cannot be the solution to this problem.

And the second one is that it calls ghostscript with some driver it does not 
support. According to the log, it calls gs with "-sDEVICE=stp", but gs does 
not have this driver compiled in. 

D [14/Sep/2003:15:57:04 +0200] [Job 6] foomatic-gswrapper: gs 
'-dPARANOIDSAFER' '-dNOPAUSE' '-dBATCH' '-sDEVICE=stp' '-sModel=escp2-870' 
'-sOutputFile=| cat >&3' '/dev/fd/0' 3>&1 1>&2
D [14/Sep/2003:15:57:04 +0200] [Job 6] ESP Ghostscript 7.05 (2003-02-05)
D [14/Sep/2003:15:57:04 +0200] [Job 6] Copyright (C) 2002 artofcode LLC, 
Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.
D [14/Sep/2003:15:57:04 +0200] [Job 6] This software comes with NO WARRANTY: 
see the file PUBLIC for details.
D [14/Sep/2003:15:57:04 +0200] [Job 6] Unknown device: stp
D [14/Sep/2003:15:57:04 +0200] [Job 6] renderer return value: 1
D [14/Sep/2003:15:57:04 +0200] [Job 6] renderer received signal: 1

Thanks for any suggestions
        Alex

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