Re: Making the Epson Stylus Color 880 work with GNU/Debian

[Elizabeth Barham <soggytrousers@yahoo.com>]

"waterboy waterbody" <waterboyelectronico@hotmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
> >
> >     i began to install GNU/debian linux and now i,m configuring my 
> >computer. I have some problems with escputil package for install my printer 
> >epson stylus color 880. The synopsis i write isn´t admitted by my computer. 
> >i don´t understand it. If you could say me the way of i have to use the 
> >escputil package with an example or with my printer, i would be so much 
> >grateful to you.
> >

The fine people at LinuxPrinting.org claim that "gimp-print" works
best to their liking:

<http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=317801>

I have an epson inkjet printer that I have not used in eight or nine
months, but I used ghostscript to convert the documents to an
epson-compatible format and then used 'lp' to send them to the
printer. I forget the name of the ghostscript driver, though.

Elizabeth