OK, this was a lot harder doing than what I am going to say. Basically I, purged all printer related drivers. Then I installed version 1.1.23 of cupsys and everything else that had been v. 1.25.

This required downloading a deb of cupsys 1.1.23 file from Debian and following numerous error messages in package manager that kept it from installing. I'd get a message saying this file was preventing the downgrade, so then I'd have to remove that and it would in turn remove other files. I did this numerous times.

I ended up with a system completely stripped of all printing files.

Then I could install cupsys 1.1.23. After that, the gimp drivers, foomatic, etc. It's a downgraded printing system that a pure Debian Sarge system uses.

At 11:30 last night I was still fiddling with the system trying to get it to print. I was not getting anything to print after all that.

This morning I tried again, and lo and behold the printer started printing gibberish. I checked and the printer was installed as a raw printer. Hmm, I selected the gimp drivers.....again! It took and.................drum roll..............I can print now.

The printer is an Epson C80 parallel port. I'm using the venerable 2.4.27 kernel.

There is one last item. I get an error message when I do "cupsd" : cupsd: Child exited with status 98!

But, like I say, I can print now. Is my error message critical? Why am I getting it? How do I fix that?

Or, should I leave well enough alone at this point?

SakiZ