[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Subject: Re: Printer setup > Date: 14 Mar 2002 09:05:23 -0600 > From: Trevor Hamm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 07:21, Robert Jones wrote: > > I just bought an Epson Stylus C80 to use with RH 6.0 realizing that > I > > probably wasn't going to realize anything close to the resolution > the > > printer is capable of without without installing a wad of upgrades. > > Things could be going better. > > > > This will buy me a B&W printout using the printtool option for > > postsript. (The red hat is black; the color bar, grays). > > > > [root@localhost rj]# cat /etc/printcap > > <snip warning> > > > > ##PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL uniprint NAxNA letter {} U_EpsonStylusColor > stcany > > {} > > lp:\ > > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ > > :mx#0:\ > > :sh:\ > > :lp=/dev/lp0:\ > > :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter: > > [root@localhost rj]# > > > > This one is worse! I wind up using a bunch of paper with 4 or 5 > lines > > of gibberish printed on each. > > > > > > ##PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL uniprint NAxNA letter {} U_EpsonStylusColor > > stc800p {} > > lp:\ > > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ > > :mx#0:\ > > :sh:\ > > :lp=/dev/lp0:\ > > :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter: > > > > I have tried some others, too, but I have yet to see 1 color dot on > the > > paper. > > > > Can anyone offer some words of wisdom here? > > > > Thanks > > Robert, > > Check out > http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Epson-Stylus_C80 > I've been there. In fact, their glowing report is what made me decide on this particular printer.
> You'll have to install GIMP-Print (and perhaps a "wad of upgrades" :) > to > get full colour support. I have an Epson Stylus Photo 820 at home with > the latest versions of GIMP-Print and CUPS (this was recommended in > the > GIMP-Print documentation as the best combo) and everything works > great. > Yes, I recall reading that. I downloaded gimp-print and cups even before I bought the printer -rw-rw-r-- 1 rj rj 4604495 Mar 10 20:14 gimp-print-4.2.1-pre3.tar.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 rj rj 6150756 Mar 10 20:23 cups-1.1.14-source.tar.gz > I highly recommend using CUPS with GIMP-Print. For one, CUPS has nice > web admin tool for configuring the printers. And second, using the > traditional LP tools may require an additional upgrade of ghostscript, > and possibly Foomatic, to use the GIMP-Print drivers. Consult the > GIMP-Print documentation to find out what you need. > > -- > Trevor Hamm > I think I'll consider that my marching orders. The main reason I held back on gimp-print was gtk. I got unbelievably tangled up in dependencies a year or so ago when I was installing something that needed a particular version of gtk and have shied away from it since then. Also, it seems like an upgraded zlib is in my future -- just as a security warning came out. Oh, well... I'll gather up what I *think* I need, check my mail Sat morning to see if my backup went o.k., then jump in like I had good sense. Worst case is that I'll go buy a box of RH7.2 and start over. Thanks! -- Disclaimer: This tagline was generated randomly and does not necessarily reflect my opinion. You can drive a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead. 2:54pm up 28 days, 17 min, 6 users, load average: 0.09, 0.17, 0.09 _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
