Re: epson Stylus 600

[Andree Leidenfrost <leidenfrost@dkrz.de>]

Salut Franck,

you are probably looking for some kind of printer filter. Debian offers
you 2 different packages for this task: apsfilter and magicfilter (both
in the 'text' section). They not only print ascii and ps but many other
formats, too.

I recently switched from apsfilter to magicfilter, because the latter is
more elegant and slim plus I also switched from lpr to lprng.

apsfilter comes with a nice installation script but is somewhat
unflexible and as far as I can see no longer actively maintained (i.e.
the upstream source, not the Debian package).
magicfilter is a little harder to get to work (at least for me it was)
although there is a program called magicfilterconfig. But it is *really*
easy to write your own filter if none of the existing ones works for
your printer.

The core question for both packages, however, is whether (better: to
what extent) ghostscript supports your printer. With 'gs -h' you get a
list of available devices. There are several starting with eps and st, I
don't know which one is compatible to the Epson printer you have. For
further information on ghostscript have a look at:
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
There's also GhostScript 5.01, but it's not yet debianised.

Maybe you also wnat to visit this page dedicated to Epson Stylus Color
printers: http://www.fammed.sunysb.edu/holve/epson.html

Regards,

	Andree
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