George Langford <george@georgesbasement.com> writes: > I attempted fixing it by deleting the printer and reinstalling it; I > chose a different driver: Epson Stylus Photo 870 Foomatic/Stp870p.upp. This appears to be a Ghostscript UniPrint driver. I wouldn't recommend this one. Install cupsys-driver-gimpprint (stable) or cupsys-driver-gutenprint (testing/unstable). This will support your printer correctly. Go to http://locahost:631, and you can add a new printer, and choose your model from the list. > For a while I thought I'd just give up on this printer and connect it > instead to a Windows PC ... but then I found out that Epson printers > are just about the best ones to use with Linux. So I'd have an even > worse hassle with a new printer. If you use the appropriate driver (Gutenprint/Gimp-Print), you will get superb output. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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