Epson inkjet prints first job ok then garbage until reset
I have an older Epson Stylus Color 880 printer, with the driver for that model installed on a machine originally running Ubuntu 12.04 and now 12.10.
Whether I print from that machine or a networked Windows or Linux machine, the first print job is perfect. Starting with the next job, it prints anywhere from a few characters to half a page of gibberish before form-feeding, until it runs out of paper.
Simply powering cycling the printer doesn't stop it; it recommences printing garbage. But if I power off the printer *and* unplug it from the Ubuntu machine's USB port, then plug it back in and switch it back on, it prints the entire intended document.
That counts as a new "first" job, i.e., on the next job it will start printing garbage again.
Anyone have and fix a similar problem, even with a different kind of printer? Since the driver I have installed purports to be for this very model, I'm at a loss for how to troubleshoot this.
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