Re: EPSON LX-300 under Linux

[David Wright <d.wright@open.ac.uk>]

Quoting Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira (baptista@cos.ufrj.br):
>         Hi Debian users,
>         I have an Epson LX-300 under Linux and cant it to work. Already tried
>         Magicfilter and Apsfilter. I dont know the right driver...
>         Thanks for any help,            Paulo Henrique

This is just a 9pin epson, I think. You might try magicfilter/gs-aladdin
with epson9 and if that works, try the eps9mid and eps9high variants.
>From my hacked epson9-filter files, respectively:

# PostScript
0 %! filter /usr/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r240x216 -sDEVICE=eps9mid -sOutputFile=\|"cat 1>&3" - 3>&1 1>&2 
0 \004%! filter /usr/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r240x216 -sDEVICE=eps9mid -sOutputFile=\|"cat 1>&3" - 3>&1 1>&2 

# PDF
0 %PDF fpipe /usr/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r240x216 -sDEVICE=eps9mid -sOutputFile=\|"cat 1>&3" $FILE 3>&1 1>&2 

and

# PostScript
0 %! filter /usr/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r240x216 -sDEVICE=eps9high -sOutputFile=\|"cat 1>&3" - 3>&1 1>&2 
0 \004%! filter /usr/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r240x216 -sDEVICE=eps9high -sOutputFile=\|"cat 1>&3" - 3>&1 1>&2 

If you try to get much better quality than that, it gets far too slow
(on an LX850).

Cheers,

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