[ale] CUPS broke?

[Paul Cartwright]

ok, is this just coincidence??
I was going to try to get remote printing working for my laptop, and my 
printer seems to have stopped working. SO I rebooted.. came up to the text 
prompt.. had to reinstall NVIDIA driver.. finally brought up KDE, and I can't 
print. when I removed the printer ans went to reinstall it, the model isn't 
there.
I have an Epson Color Stylus 880. In the models, they go to 870, no 880.
I downloaded & installed gutenprint 5.1.3-1 still no 880.
any idea where I can find a PPD file for the epson  880? google doesn't show 
one, except for rpmfind, which seems to be down.

ACK!
and then I tried to add my hp5610 all-in-one and it also will not print, so I 
think I have a general cups issue.
what do to?
reinstall cups?
from the command line:
# lpstat -t
scheduler is running
system default destination: epson
device for epson: usb://EPSON/Stylus%20COLOR%20880
device for hpOffice_Jet_5610: 
usb://HP/Officejet%205600%20series?serial=CN58BCF21H04CY
epson accepting requests since Fri 17 Aug 2007 09:49:46 AM EDT
hpOffice_Jet_5610 accepting requests since Fri 17 Aug 2007 09:58:41 AM EDT
printer epson is idle.  enabled since Fri 17 Aug 2007 09:49:46 AM EDT
printer hpOffice_Jet_5610 is idle.  enabled since Fri 17 Aug 2007 09:58:41 AM 
EDT
        Printer not connected; will retry in 30 seconds...


when I had the 880 as default, it also showed as not connected.
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Paul Cartwright
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