-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Anyone using the EPSON Stylus Photo 820 printer? If so, what driver are you using with what release of SuSE? And, how's the quality of photo prints? Thanks! Fred - -- Fred A. Miller Systems Administrator Cornell Univ. Press Services fm@cupserv.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8I6yMIhTtc6nTZIIRAq7AAJ4rU6LeyW1Nl0Tn1RFulOxxwzimRwCdFDym jQHOwr+q7VLsOy/QQ4puVDU= =C49R -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 15:41, Fred A. Miller wrote:
Anyone using the EPSON Stylus Photo 820 printer? If so, what driver are you using with what release of SuSE? And, how's the quality of photo prints?
I can't speak from experience on that model, but the gimp-print drivers combined with CUPS are probably THE BEST combination for any Epson printer. I've seen lpr/magicfilter vs. lpr/gs vs. cups/gimp-print on my STC 440, and the difference is night-and-day. -- -=|JP|=- Need a good geek? I'm unemployed! '01 B15 SE/PP | http://www.xanga.com/cowboydren/ | < '95 SL2 Auto | cowboydren @ yahoo . com | _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
By accident, I found that v. 1.0 of HPIJS (Hewlett-Packard InkJet Server), which appears to be a plug-in for GhostScript was released a few days ago. It supports about 60 DeskJets, Photo-Rets, etc., from the HP lineup. According to the information on the Linux printer project, and sourceforge, which in this case is a link from HP, the printer quality is very high. Have not done anything with it yet, but it looks like the software will tie itself to GS and also install itself, interrogate your printer, etc, etc. Probably the print is not up to Epson 820 standards, but I'd bet it's not far behind. (Depending, of course, on which model HP you have.) INFO at: http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net mctaataagn! --doug At 16:12 12/21/2001 -0600, Jon Pennington wrote:
On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 15:41, Fred A. Miller wrote:
Anyone using the EPSON Stylus Photo 820 printer? If so, what driver are you using with what release of SuSE? And, how's the quality of photo prints?
I can't speak from experience on that model, but the gimp-print drivers combined with CUPS are probably THE BEST combination for any Epson printer. I've seen lpr/magicfilter vs. lpr/gs vs. cups/gimp-print on my STC 440, and the difference is night-and-day.
-- -=|JP|=- Need a good geek? I'm unemployed!
'01 B15 SE/PP | http://www.xanga.com/cowboydren/ | < '95 SL2 Auto | cowboydren @ yahoo . com |
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Hi;
Anyone using the EPSON Stylus Photo 820 printer? If so, what driver are you using with what release of SuSE? And, how's the quality of photo prints?
I have an EPSON Stylus Photo 700 and I get great photo output with the gimp print plug-in (sorry, don't know the URL). You need to install CUPS (the one with SuSE 7.2 is fine) and then download the gimp print tar file. Once installed just select the epson-gimp driver from YAST2 (CUPS), configure and your away. Remember to get the CUPS files for KDE is you want to print from Konqueror. Also note that you must set ./configure --with-cups otherwise it will just install as a gimp plug-in. Hope this helps. -- ----------- Darren Harmon http://users.breathemail.net/darren.harmon1/
On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 16:41:32 -0500
"Fred A. Miller"
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Anyone using the EPSON Stylus Photo 820 printer? If so, what driver are you using with what release of SuSE?
The best quality is acheived through the Gimp-Print drivers (http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net). Unfortunately, it doesn't not come with any SuSE distro so you either have to patch and compile Ghostscript if you are using lpd or compile the CUPS driver.
And, how's the quality of photo prints?
The GIMP-Print drivers are usually comparable if not superior to their Windows counterpart. Regards, Charles -- The box saids Windows XP or better, so I installed Linux
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