Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 07:41:28PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 05:22:50AM +0100, Erdmut Pfeifer wrote:
> >
> > exactly -- at least that's what one would expect.
> > Normally gs should just load the svga shared lib, but not start reading
> > related config files, etc. However, the fact that in your case it does
> > proceed as if it wanted to init the svga driver, makes me guess that
> > there might be some problem with the device specification in the gs
> > command (that's why I asked for that exact command). In that case it
> > would be possible that gs falls back to the built-in default device
> > (x11 when in X, and that stupid svga thing when in console mode).
>
> the lpdomatic filters use the uniprint driver. another version uses
> stp which is not available in gs. (in either potato or woody/sid)
it seems as if there's a special gs package with stp included:
ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/sourceforge/gimp-print/gs_5.10stp-10_i386.deb
also, in there you'll find a README.stp.gz with further infos on how
to build it from source, etc. -- just in case you need to.
Can't tell you whether it works, though, because I don't own that
printer -- from the docs it sounds promising :)
Good luck,
Erdmut
>
> > To clarify this further: what happens if you take the following
> > trivial PostScript fragment
> >
> > %!PS
> > /Helvetica findfont 36 scalefont setfont
> > 10 10 moveto (testpage) show
> > showpage
> >
> > and for example run the following gs command
> >
> > gs -sDEVICE=jpeg -sOutputFile=test.jpg -g150x50 -dBATCH test.ps
> >
> > (assuming you saved the PS under test.ps, of course)
>
> this worked.
>
> so it would seem debian's gs does not have a suitable driver for this
> printer?
>
> --
> Ethan Benson
> http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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Erdmut Pfeifer
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