Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1377 mails)

[weissel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Wolfgang Weisselberg)]

Hi!

Trying to kill the keyboard, sandyseeds@xxxxxxxxx produced:
> 
> I've got a friend that wants to install SuSE, but so far he's been
> unable to find a driver/server for his Epson 850. He's checked SuSE and
> Epson with no luck.

I am using an Epson LQ 850. With the old ghostscript 4.xx that
is on the SuSE-CD the printing is ... well, only usable if you
cat raw text to /dev/lp1. Postscript (and that includes your
normal printing, since it is translated to ps by a2ps) going
via Ghostscript is hard to read and looks plain ugly. 

However, there is a newer Ghostscript aviable: Version 5.10.
SuSE is not allowed to distribute it via CD IIRC, but the RPM's
are aviable from their FTP-Server. See the SDB:
/usr/doc/support-db/sdb_e/new_gs.html (New Ghostscript version)
and download the correct binary - or the source.

Then just configure the printer (with or without YaST), using
lq850 as driver. Now you can stun some laser printers (well,
not with speed :-) but the quality is good.)

-Wolfgang


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