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Re: Inexpensive color printer experience



I've just bought a Epson Stylus 200 for $240 CAN (~ $180 US). It didn't try the
color mode with Linux YET  but color-printing  is  fine (in  W95 :-() even  for
T-Shirt. (La)TeX   documents look  awsome   (with -sUnidirectional  option  for
ghostcsript). Oh yeah ! the Debian (1.1) ghostcsript package has no support for
the Stylus, I have to build it from scratch :-(((( what a shame !

dvips generates really really good bitmap fonts so  your (La)TeX documents look
close  to laser-quality.  Documents   which   use standard ps-fonts  look   bad
(ghostscript's fonts is far from  good !). On Win95,  the  TT fonts don't  look
very nice neither.

So if you use  (La)TeX for some front-end (LyX)  for your documents, they  will
look really professional on this very  cheap printer. Make  sure you to add the
-sUnidirectional  option to ghostscript.  It   makes printing twice slower  but
your verticall lines are aligned !



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Linh Dang                                 Nortel Technology
Member of Scientific Staff                Speech Recognition Software
linhd@nortel.ca
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