epson stylus c80 under debian

["nate" <debian-user@aphroland.org>]

anyone have experience with this printer? its the first
printer i bought in 10 years and i bought it because
it was rated the best inkjet on linuxprinting.org

but ive had little success using it under debian sofar.
closest i can get is installing cups from source and using
a generic color driver which doesnt provide color support
and gives real low(360x360) resolution(printer is capable
of 2800xsomething dpi).

im now trying it on freebsd 4.4 ..if i can get it to
detect the parallel port on the system.

been workin on it for about 3 hours now..running out
of ideas.

thanks.

nate