On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:38:38AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > Do you need to use lprng or just something that accepts print jobs over the lprng. > network? If the latter, check out CUPS (packages cupsys, cupsys-bsd, > cupsys-client). It prefers ipp (internet printing protocol), but (IIRC) it > also handles lpr-style network printing. i really don't want to mess with cups. > Like the earlier respondent, I've got an 880 instead of an 870, but the CUPS > drivers don't seem to care much about those details. Just tell it you've got > an Epson printer and which of 4 categories the printer falls into, and it > seems to work passably well. (Greyscale works perfectly, but color print > jobs come out horribly oversaturated (in the color-applied-too-heavily sense, > which may or may not be related to the technical definition of chromatic > "saturation") - except for the printer test page, where they also work fine. > I'm sure it's fixable, but I so rarely want to print in color, it's not been > worth my time to look into it yet. Also, with the single generic driver, > some special features of the printer may not be supported.) No external > software (gs, stp) is needed. if it isn't going to work right in color there is no sense keeping this printer. its cheaper to get a used postscript laser off ebay. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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