Hi Brian, I have a C60 and it works perfectly. I'm using the parallel port interface, not the USB interface. The port should be set to EPP/ECP if you want to monitor the printer. There's a nice standalone utility called mtink that monitors the ink quantity, cleans cartridge heads, etc., found here:
http://xwtools.automatix.de/english/startE.htm
I tried CUPS but it kept seg-faulting on me so I switched to LPRng and haven't had any problems since. The only problem (other than the price of ink) is that there isn't a native C60 or C80 driver and/or filter doo-higgee with LPRng, so I've been using the Color Stylus II driver without any problems. I would prefer a native driver via CUPS and gimp-print, but I'm planning on upgrading to 8.0 shortly (the local Micro Center was sold out believe it or not) and after reading this article:
http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/jsmeix_print-einrichten-80.html
it seems it would be wise to hold off on CUPS until after the upgrade. If I had to do it over again, I think the C80 would be the better choice. I know a few people with C80's and it's much quieter than the C60, not to mention the print quality is much better.
Cheers,
-jrh The C80 must use its own driver as it is the first Epson to include separate
On Tuesday 21 May 2002 12:53 am, John Ross Hunt wrote: print cartridges and it is not compatible with any of the older drivers (this is at least according to Epson when I talked to them on the phone regarding a problem printing to the C80 from Windows XP). And as I mentioned, I have been using CUPS and GimpPrint at least since 7.1 with SuSE, and before that on Mandrake. I have never had any problems except that under SuSE it is somewhat difficult to get rid of the LP system it installs because it insists on reinstalling it on a regular basis when I am in adding new software. This usually kills my lpr commands that are associated with Cups. Other than that I don't think I have ever had a segmentation fault while printing under CUPS, or for that matter much of any printing system.