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Re: Help Epson R800 Printing garbage on lenny amd64 - Costing me a small fortune in ink.



On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 09:52:32PM +0100, Daniel Harris wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I have been using debian for several years now but just recently I have been
> given a epson r800 printer but when I use it it is very unstable so I
> thought it was faulty and didnt use it much however my cousin and his wife
> have just had a new baby so I thought I would try the printer again.  Same
> results outputs garbage especially photos but also the test page stops half
> way through.  So I was pretty much about to through it in the bin when I
> read about ink issues and fixing it so I printed a test band of colour -
> printed perfectly then I printed a photo and garbage again.  I just tried on
> my brothers windows machine and I got perfect photo prints.  I am using
> standard debian software - cups, gutenprint etc.  If somebody on the list
> can shine some light on this issue i would be most greatful as I am going
> through ink so fast that my bank manager has been in touch.

I'm not specifically aware of any issues with the R800 that would
explain your problems.  However, when you say the test page stops half
way through, did the first half look OK?  I saw in the changelog for
gutenprint that a bug in page feeds on the R800 had been fixed, so it's
/possible/ that you're running into that.

I uploaded the very latest version of gutenprint (5.2.4) to unstable at
the weekend, so you might want to try that to see if it fixes your
problems.  Are you running stable/lenny, testing/squeeze or
unstable/sid?  If it's Lenny, you can probably just rebuild the source
package, and I'll backport it soon if I have time.  Testing should get
the new packages in a week or so, and you can install the unstable ones
in the meantime.

Other than trying the latest version, you might want to try different
resolutions to see if just one is broken.  I don't have an R800, so
there's little I can do to look and check your configuration myself.
One possibility is to subscribe and ask on the Gutenprint developer's
list (https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gimp-print-devel)
where you might well get a much more useful response from the authors.

I take it that you have just installed cups-driver-gutenprint,
gimp-gutenprint, and set up the printer queue using something like the
CUPS web interface?


Regards,
Roger

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