(Hello Britton, sorry, I had been really lazy and didn't reply your e-mail about your STC600 problem about a month ago... ^_^)
On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Britton wrote: > Actually, I think the st800 supports an older Epson printer. They have > been just brilliant about naming them. Incidently, I bought there > reference book, which contains info on color settings to use for the new > printers. This may be moot with GS 5, but it could be useful to someone > wanting get GS 4 working optimally. Actually, it would probably be useful > for getting GS 5 to work with transparences and what-have-you. I couldn't > figure how to convert the specs to a color adjust matrix, but if anyone > with more experience is interested, let me know. Actually, there is some kind of colour adjust matrix settings that come with Ghostscript 5.03. They basically made stcolor into a generic printer driver, with setting files for STC500, STC600 and STC800 etc. There's a set of colour adjust matrix in stc800??.upp files. (? I'm at school, so I am guessing ?) > > I am not familiar with magicfilter, but getting apsfilter to work with the > > bjc600 driver was simply a matter of renaming several filter files, since > > there is really only one filter and it captures the driver name from the > > filter ame. Possibly the same approach would work with magicfilter. > > That is pretty much it, in theory at least. Rename the files there and > int the /etc/printcap magicfilter generates for you, and away you go. > Actually, I get endless strings of printer resets (visable in > /var/log/messages) which I thought were due to gs, but apparently someone > else has the stcolor driver working via direct invocation of gs, so mayby > magicfilter is at fault. It prints a text file though. Wierd. BTW, do you have Windows 95 or 3.1 on your computer? If so, does the EPSON printer works well under Windows? The reason is that I had experienced a minor problem in the past when I set the parallel port to be ECP. ECP doesn't seem to cooperate with the printer, but when I changed it back to EPP, it worked fine. The printer command set, ESC/P2 (?), should be pretty much the same for STC500, STC600 and STC800. Ghostscript 4.03's stcolor should be able to support your STC600, except the lack of 1440x720dpi mode and sub-optimal colour adjust matrix setting. Hmm... Have you tried invoking gs directly (i.e. by-passing magicfilter) to print a Postscript file to your STC600? -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling [EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineering http://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, Canada Keep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
