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[Dave Howorth <Dave.Howorth@xxxxxxx>]

I wrote: 
> Anyway, I've bought an RX620 so I'll no doubt be back to ask for help 
> and/or let you all know that it worked :)

I thought I'd give an update of what I've found so far:

PRINTING PHOTOS
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The first thing I did was to try
printing from the SD-card from my Nikon Coolpix 7900. The good news is
that I succeeded in printing a photo. The bad news is that it didn't
show me all the pictures on the card and it did show me some that I'd
deleted! Plus the colour wasn't very good. I looked on the Epson web
site but didn't find a solution, so I've asked Epson about the missing
pictures and will reserve judgment on the colour until I've got
everything set up.

Later note. Once the printer is connected to the computer, the SD card
is automounted by Suse when I put it in the printer's slot and I see
the correct photos on the computer but still the wrong ones on the
printer. So my SWAG is that there's something wrong with Epson's 
filesystem implementation.

PRINTING FROM SUSE
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(1) There's a nice link here:
http://www.linuxforum.com/forums/index.php?s=90bded507a9d366a0bf15abe733140ca&showtopic=155538&st=0&#entry675463

(2) Epson provide Linux drivers via Avasys:
http://www.avasys.jp/english/linux_e/dl_spc.html
and here's a link to a list of OS versions they've tested:
http://www.avasys.jp/english/linux_e/spc_match_e.html

(3) Epson has a support site with specific Linux FAQs and tutorials.
Search the support section of their local site or perhaps try
http://esupport.epson-europe.com/ if you live in the UK.
(The FAQ and Tutorials are the same thing!)

What I've done so far:
(1) Download the avasys CUPS drivers 
(2) Check CUPS was installed 
(3) Install the avasys rpm: rpm -i pips-sprx620_630s-cups-2.6.2-1.i386.rpm 
(4) Go into YAST printers. Select printer type SPRX620_630S from Epson list. 
(5) Test print failed (printer does nothing). Exit YAST printer page. 
(6) kill -HUP `pidof cupsd` 
(7) cups died! So /etc/init.d/cups restart 
(8) Repeat steps 4 & 5 :( 
(9) Try to add printer via CUPS web page following Epson's
    readme-sprx620_630s-cups
    (man lppasswd if you can't remember how to login to CUPS :) 
(10) "EPSON Inkjet Printer #1 (Photo Image Print System)" doesn't appear as
     an option for "device", so I chose "USB Printer #1 (EPSON Stylus Photo
     RX620)" instead. 
(11) CUPS says printer is successfully added. 
(12) Try to print test page. Same result as YaST - nothing happens. 
(13) Use the CUPS web page to delete the printer 
(13) Try Epson's recommended lpadmin command-line:       
        /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p sprx620_630s -E -v ekplp:/var/ekpd/ekplp0 -m eksprx620_630s.ppd
      Result is:
        lpadmin: add-printer (set device) failed: client-error-not-possible 
(14) Look on Epson web site. There's a 'tutorial' called 'Why when I tried
     to test my Epson printer by ‘cat. cshrc > /dev/lp0' nothing prints?'
     but the command they suggest doesn't terminate. I do discover
     /etc/ekpdrc and the ekpd process along the way...
(15) ... and when I try cat .bashrc > /dev/usb/lp0 IT ACTUALLY PRINTS !!!
(16) BUT I STILL CAN'T PRINT FROM ANY APPLICATION.

I haven't given up yet (I've been recovering from a New Year party today :)
but if anybody has any thoughts, they'd be welcome.

I tried the scanner stand-alone (to copy a page) but haven't tried it with
Suse yet. Oh, yeah, Suse 9.3 + packman. Athlon64, MSI K8M Neo-V.

Happy New Year,
Dave