On Friday 18 January 2002 09:33 pm, nate wrote: > anyone have experience with this printer? its the first > printer i bought in 10 years and i bought it because > it was rated the best inkjet on linuxprinting.org > > but ive had little success using it under debian sofar. > closest i can get is installing cups from source and using > a generic color driver which doesnt provide color support > and gives real low(360x360) resolution(printer is capable > of 2800xsomething dpi). > > im now trying it on freebsd 4.4 ..if i can get it to > detect the parallel port on the system. > > been workin on it for about 3 hours now..running out > of ideas. > > thanks. > > nate
are you using the browser interface to cups? i just installed an epson stylus color 580 this morning using cups, and i'm pretty sure that i saw a listing among the drivers for a c80. just point the browser at http://localhost:631/
