Re: epson stylus color 740 - ugly printing
I use my Epson 740 flawlessly on Linux & FreeBSD 4.2.
I have used my same setup on RH, SuSE, Caldera, MD,
Debian, and FreeBSD. Works on all systems.
I do NOT use cupsys. I use the standard lpr/lpd.
To be truthful with you I don't even know what cupsys is :)
What I have is three queues: lp=720x720, lp1=360x360,
and lp2=1440x720. All three queues work great.
I wrote an install script that will copy the Epson740
drivers to the Ghostscript directory, put in a new
/etc/printcap file, create /var/spool/lpd/{lp|lp1|lp2}
directories, and your done. You just have to "restart"
the lpd daemon.
All you have to do is:
1) remove cupsys??
2) install lpd
3) install enscript-letter
4) install ghostscript
5) run my install script
If you want I can tar up my script and the Epson740 ghostscript
drivers and email them to you tonight when I get home from the office.
Let me know at: cwaiken@telerama.com
Good Luck...
-=[cwa]=-
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Erik Steffl wrote:
-|Matthew Dalton wrote:
-|>
-|> Erik Steffl wrote:
-|> >
-|> > I have epson stylus color 740 printer and cupsys 1.1.4-3
-|> >
-|> > the printing seems to be working but:
-|> >
-|> > lp -d epson740 picture.jpg # 360 dpi
-|> >
-|> > prints a picture but it's ugly, the colors are quite off (not
-|> > completely off, just noticeably different)
-|>
-|> Like I said to someone on this mailing list less than 2 hours ago:
-|>
-|> http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net
-|
-| thanks for the response. I did install the gimp-print but:
-|
-| 1) I have cups installed, how do I use the gimp driver? when I choose
-|printing from gimp and choose anything else but the postscript driver it
-|simply does not get out to the printer and it seems that cups dies.
-|there are no error messages but nothing gets printed and localhost:631
-|does not respond. in other words: how do I send data to printer so that
-|it bypasses all the filters and goes straight to the printer?
-|
-| 2) after I installed the cups related part I cannot configure or
-|manage printers anymore (via localhost:631). I still can add the
-|printer, I added one with the new driver from gimp-print and it seems to
-|do slightly better job but I would like to fine tune it - how do I do it
-|when localhost:631 does not allow me to? how to fix it?
-|
-| my system:
-| debian unstable,
-| kernel 2.2.17
-| ii cupsys 1.1.4-3
-| ii cupsys-bsd 1.1.4-3
-| ii cupsys-client 1.1.4-3
-| print-4.1.1.tar.gz
-|
-| btw the cups part didn't compile/build right away, the epson.c misses
-|cups/http.h and also -lcups and -lcupsimage libraries are missing in
-|Makefile...
-|
-| are there plans to package gimp-print? include the cups part in cups?
-|
-| TIA
-|
-| erik
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Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA
chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com
Current O/S: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2
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