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On Sunday 30 December 2001 10:14 am, Michael Nelson wrote:
On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 09:52:47AM -0800, Gnu iBook 2 wrote:
-> There are always various ways of doing things, I am glad turboprint -> worked for you, but it does not sound to me that it is easier -> and/or higher quality then cups & gimp-print.
I don't know how well gimp-print works with Epson, but it leaves much to be desired with my Canon S800.
I've spent MONTHS and many man-hours downloading and compiling and installing and tweaking the settings on each gimp-print release, and the best I have ever been able to get out of it is "somewhat acceptable", which is piss-poor compared to the way the printer works under Windows with the Canon drivers.
After reading this thread this morning, I went to the turboprint site, downloaded the demo version, had it working in about 1 minute, produced *clearly* superior print quality with much faster printing speed than cups + gimp-print, and so I used my credit card and ordered the keyfile immediately.
Received the keyfile in a few minutes, and I'm really pleased I spent the 19 Euros on it. It works much better than cups + gimp-print, at least on the Canon S800. I'd say it looks just as good as the native Windows Canon driver.
If you note in the gimp print 4.2 release notes, they say:
"7) The Canon BJC-8200 and S800 do not produce optimum quality."
That's an understatement.
Michael
Wrong about Epson in general, produces excellent output on my C60 and gimp-print 4.2 was totally easy to install with ./configure make make install. Yast2 did the rest. As for the rest of the mission, well all it took was one line that took me a number of hours to find (this was with Windows to Linux printing). Oh had an issue with webmin corrupting Samba too. You could try http://www.epsondevelopers.com/lprint.jsp to get a wider slection of ideas on getting your printer to work under Linux, but do check www.linuxprinting.org too. Matt