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My office has two older Epson DFX-8000 printer of which we only use one. Up until recently it was connected to a computer running Windows Server 2003 and was used to print reports and such which are cheaper to print with a dot-matrix printer.
Unfortunately we've since decommissioned the machine it was working with and replaced it with a Windows Server 2012 box. We have not been able to get it working since. It would not work with Windows Server 2012. We tried Windows 7 and XP with no success. Switching to the unused printer did not make a difference. We've attached them to multiple different computers as well. I once got it to work on Debian 7 using CUPS and a generic epson driver (epsonnc I think, but can't quite remember). The thing printed out a test page and a few documents from LibreOffice. Then I changed a setting and it stopped working. Most of the time the machine does nothing when we try to print. Sometimes it will spit out a few lines of jibberish when we try to print a test page and only stop when the paper is out. We've even looked at the dip switches, but can't come up with a solution.
Does anybody have any ideas? The printer does not have to be attached to any particular computer, just available for use some how. We don't have the money to buy a new printer right now. We are on the verge of giving up and simply using the copy machines for these printing tasks even though it would be more expensive.
Unfortunately we've since decommissioned the machine it was working with and replaced it with a Windows Server 2012 box. We have not been able to get it working since. It would not work with Windows Server 2012. We tried Windows 7 and XP with no success. Switching to the unused printer did not make a difference. We've attached them to multiple different computers as well. I once got it to work on Debian 7 using CUPS and a generic epson driver (epsonnc I think, but can't quite remember). The thing printed out a test page and a few documents from LibreOffice. Then I changed a setting and it stopped working. Most of the time the machine does nothing when we try to print. Sometimes it will spit out a few lines of jibberish when we try to print a test page and only stop when the paper is out. We've even looked at the dip switches, but can't come up with a solution.
Does anybody have any ideas? The printer does not have to be attached to any particular computer, just available for use some how. We don't have the money to buy a new printer right now. We are on the verge of giving up and simply using the copy machines for these printing tasks even though it would be more expensive.
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