Re: magicfilter and Stylus 600

[dthayer@netcom.com]

On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Britton wrote:
> 
> If anyone has the Epson Stylus Color 600 working with magicfilter, I would
> love to hear what you did.  I did plain vanilla installation of gs,
> magicfilter, and magicfilterconfig, but I can't ever print plain text.  It
> just scoots the paper back and forth for a while, sticks it in the middle,
> and then the power light keeps blinking forever (supposedly indicating
> data is being sent to the printer, even though lpq shows 'no entries'.
> 

I am successfully using the Stylus Color 600 with magicfilter. I am
using Aladdin Ghostscript from non-free if that makes any difference.

Here's the relevent section from my /etc/printcap:

lp|st600|stylus600|Epson Stylus Color 600:\
        :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/stylus600:\
        :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\
        :if=/usr/sbin/stcolor-filter:\
        :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:

and I modified the LQ series filter to get /usr/sbin/stcolor-filter by
changing the arguments for gs in the postscript section to:

-dMAGSTEP=0.5 -dMicroWeave -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=stcolor
-sOutputFile=- /usr/lib/ghostscript/4.03/stcolor.ps-

As far as I can remember, this was all that it took.


Dave Thayer
Denver, Colorado USA
dthayer@netcom.com david.thayer@state.co.us


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