Re: Upgrading ghostscript?
On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 10:24:17 -0700 (MST)
> From: Bob Nielsen <nielsen@primenet.com>
> To: Peter S Galbraith <galbraith@mixing.qc.dfo.ca>
> Cc: Marco Pistore <pistore@di.unipi.it>,
> Debian Users Mailing List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: Re: Upgrading ghostscript?
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> On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
>
> > I just got an Epson Stylus Color 800 printer to try out, and
> > I could managed much resolution out of Debian 1.3's installed
> > ghostscript.
> >
> > I'm seeking advice here. Any pointers appreciated. Has anyone setup
> > a Stylus 800 with gs-aladdin 4.03-7? What's the max you can do?
> > How do you do it, since magicfilter is also too old to know about this
> > printer?
Using EPSON Stylus COLOR 500 here. Love it. ^_^ (I wish I had waited
longer to get the COLOR 600 though... But STC600 wasn't out until half a
year later, and I needed the printer, so... ^_^ Hey, STC500 is quite
nice, you know... <-- self-consolation... <smile>
BTW, STC500 works great with both Ghostscript 4.03 (stcolor) and 5.03
(stcolor or uniprint).
> With gs-alladin 4.03-7:
>
> Available devices:
> x11 x11mono x11alpha x11cmyk lvga256 vgalib ap3250 appledmp bj10e bj200
> bjc600 bjc800 cdeskjet cdjcolor cdjmono cdj500 cdj550 cp50 declj250
> deskjet djet500 djet500c dnj650c epson eps9mid eps9high epsonc ibmpro
> imagen iwhi iwlo iwlq jetp3852 laserjet lbp8 lips3 lj250 ljet2p ljet3
> ljet3d ljet4 lj4dith ljetplus lp2563 m8510 necp6 oce9050 paintjet pj
> pjetxl pjxl pjxl300 r4081 sj48 st800 stcolor t4693d2 t4693d4 t4693d8
> ^^^^^
> tek4696 dfaxhigh dfaxlow faxg3 miff24 faxg32d faxg4 tiffcrle tiffg3
> tiffg32d tiffg4 tiff12nc tiff24nc tifflzw tiffpack bit bitrgb bitcmyk
> bmpmono bmp16 bmp256 bmp16m cgmmono cgm8 cgm24 cif mgrmono mgrgray2
> mgrgray4 mgrgray8 mgr4 mgr8 pcxmono pcxgray pcx16 pcx256 pcx24b pbm
> pbmraw pgm pgmraw pgnm pgnmraw pnm pnmraw ppm ppmraw psmono sgirgb
> pngmono pnggray png16 png256 png16m pdfwrite nullpage
>
> Thus, the st800 is supported.
Yes, but not exactly. There's an older model called EPSON Stylus 800,
which is a B/W printer, i.e. no colour. It has been out for probably
quite a few years now. The hot new model is called EPSON Stylus COLOR 800
and is very different from the old B/W 800.
One can use Ghostscript 4.03's stcolor driver for STC800, except that it
can only go up to 720x720 dpi, not 1440x720 dpi... (But who needs that
high resolution in day-to-day printing? ^_^) Also, the colour map is not
optimized for STC800. With the uniprint driver in Ghostscript 5.03,
however, some people have contributed wonderful colour map/matrix (?)
files for STC500, STC600 and STC800.
> I am not familiar with magicfilter, but getting apsfilter to work with the
> bjc600 driver was simply a matter of renaming several filter files, since
> there is really only one filter and it captures the driver name from the
> filter ame. Possibly the same approach would work with magicfilter.
Yes, exactly. I have set up magicfilter to work with my EPSON Stylus
COLOR 500. Maybe we should add more printer filter files so new users
don't have to set up things from scratch. (Actually, I am quite guilty as
I speak, because I didn't bother to send any suggestions to magicfilter's
maintainer or upstream author... ^_^) Too busy (and lazy) as always.
^_^
Anthony
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Civil Engineering http://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/
University of Alberta, Canada Keep smiling! *^_^*
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