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Re: epson stylus color 740 - ugly printing



On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 09:58:32AM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken wrote:
> 
> I use my Epson 740 flawlessly on Linux & FreeBSD 4.2.
> I have used my same setup on RH, SuSE, Caldera, MD,
> Debian, and FreeBSD.  Works on all systems.
> 
> I do NOT use cupsys.  I use the standard lpr/lpd.
> To be truthful with you I don't even know what cupsys is :)
> 
> What I have is three queues:  lp=720x720,  lp1=360x360,
> and lp2=1440x720.  All three queues work great.
> 
> I wrote an install script that will copy the Epson740
> drivers to the Ghostscript directory, put in a new
> /etc/printcap file, create /var/spool/lpd/{lp|lp1|lp2}
> directories, and your done.  You just have to "restart"
> the lpd daemon.
> 
> All you have to do is:
> 1) remove cupsys??
> 2) install lpd
> 3) install enscript-letter
> 4) install ghostscript
> 5) run my install script
> 
> If you want I can tar up my script and the Epson740 ghostscript
> drivers and email them to you tonight when I get home from the office.

I would /love/ to see this, too...

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