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On 1/15/00, 1:17:06 AM, Andreas Schmidt <andreas@schmidt-privat.de> wrote regarding Re: printer:

> According to

> http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/show_printer.cgi?recnum=62912

> the Epson Stylus Color 400 is supported perfectly by the ghostscript
> driver "stcolor" (which is used by magicfilter) and also by the
> gs uniprint driver stc500p.upp and stc500ph.upp.
> In the file /etc/magicfilter/stylus_color_360dpi-filter is a comment
> that you should change the options for gs version >=3.51 (Debian comes
> with version 5.10), so maybe you should try this first.
> If you want to use the uniprint drivers, copy stylus_color_360dpi-filter
> to 2 new files, e.g. stc500p-filter and stc500ph-filter, and edit the
> following lines - for stc500p-filter:

> # PostScript
> 0   %!       filter   /usr/bin/gs   @stc500p.upp -q -sOutputFile=- -
> 0   \004%!   filter   /usr/bin/gs   @stc500p.upp -q -sOutputFile=- -

> # PDF
> 0   %PDF     fpipe    /usr/bin/gs   @stc500p.upp -q -sOutputFile=- $FILE

> (the changes in stc500ph-filter are equivalent to the above)

> After these changes you can setup 2 printer queues for /dev/lp0 with
> magicfilterconfig using the new filter-files: stc500p-filter for
> 360x360 dpi and stc500ph-filter for 720x720 dpi.

> Hope these hints can help you to use your Stylus Color 400 under Linux.

> Bye
> Andreas

> On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 05:44:31PM +0000, trent@ebox.tninet.se wrote:
> > I am very new to Linux and have installed debian on my computer just a
> > few days ago.  I am having trouble to get my printer working properly.
> >  I have an Epson Stylus color 400 printer.  I have installed the lpr
> > packing and used magicfilter to configure the printer.  When I use the
> > lpr command to print my printer starts to print out a bunch of "y" for
> > only a couple of lines then it starts on a new sheet of paper and does
> > the same thing.  This continues on till I have to turn off the printer
> > to get it to stop.  My printcap file looks like this
> > lp|sc400|Epson SC 400:\
> >         :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/sc400:\
> >         :sh:pw#80:pl#72:px#1440:mx#0:\
> >         :if=/etc/magicfilter/stylus_color_360dpi-filter:\
> >         :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:
> > i was wondering if anyone could help me out, thanks
> > Clyde
> >

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