Re: magicfilter and Stylus 600
Hello Britton! ^_^
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 have an EPSON Stylus COLOR 500 working perfectly with Debian GNU/Linux,
magicfilter, Ghostscript 4.03/5.0x and lprng. ^_^
Hmm... Which printer driver did you choose with magicfilter? There is no
specific configuration for EPSON Stylus COLOR printers in magicfilter
(yet). I guess you can pick something like epsonlpc, and then make the
changes.
Okay, let's begin. ^_^
I have several entries in my /etc/printcap file, for different
resolutions. ^_^ For examples, I have the following entries in my
/etc/printcap file:
lp|lp360|ij|epscfh|epsc500|EPSON Stylus COLOR 500 (360 dpi):\
:lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/epsc500:\
:sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\
:if=/usr/sbin/epsonsc500-filter:\
:af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:
lp180|ij180|epscfhlo|epsc500_180|EPSON Stylus COLOR 500 (180 dpi):\
:lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/epsc500:\
:sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\
:if=/usr/sbin/epsonsc500-filter_180:\
:af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:
lp720|ij720|epscfhhi|epsc500_720|EPSON Stylus COLOR 500 (720 dpi):\
:lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/epsc500:\
:sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\
:if=/usr/sbin/epsonsc500-filter_720:\
:af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:
Feel free to adapt it to your tasting. ^_^
For my epsonsc500-filter* files, I think I just took the
/usr/sbin/epsonlqc-filter file, copied to epsonsc500-filter, then edit the
settings. For example, I have changed the first few lines to:
# PostScript
0 %! filter /usr/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r360x360 -sDEVICE=stcolor \
-dColorAdjustMatrix="{1.0 0.0 0.0 0.8 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.8 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.8 -0.5 -0.5 -0.5 1.0}" \
-sDithering="fscmyk" -sOutputFile=- stc500pl.ps -
0 \004%! filter /usr/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r360x360 -sDEVICE=stcolor \
-dColorAdjustMatrix="{1.0 0.0 0.0 0.8 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.8 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.8 -0.5 -0.5 -0.5 1.0}" \
-sDithering="fscmyk" -sOutputFile=- stc500pl.ps -
I also changed the resolution from 180 to 360. You may do something
similar for epsonsc500-filter_180 and epsonsc500-filter_720. (BTW, the
file names that I made up are not consistent and definitely non-standard.
Feel free to name them to your own tasting. ^_^
Note that the -dColorAdjustMatrix setting listed above is specifically
tailored for the SC500. For SC600, your colour printout might not look
very good with these settings. You might be able to find something on the
Internet. ^_^ Also, the file stc500pl.ps is, again, designed for SC500.
It might work well with SC600, but I am not sure. I will attached it in
another message. I hope it works. ^_^ Note that, however, the EPSON
Stylus printer driver in Ghostscript 4.03 only supports up to 720x720 dpi.
Better yet, use Ghostscript 5.02 (or the latest version) which comes with
uniprint which provides excellent support for SC600 and SC800, including
support for 1440x720dpi printing. It will be Debianized soon, but I guess
the package maintainer has been very busy and he experienced some problems
compiling the new Ghostscript with glibc 2 (libc6) and svgalib or
something like that? ^_^ (I forgot)
Anyway, please read /usr/doc/gs/devices.txt.gz for more information about
the EPSON Stylus printer driver in Ghostscript 4.03. ^_^
Hope this helps! ^_^
Anthony
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