hi; I just bought the Epson Stylus 880, which's been suggested in www.linuxprinting.org/suggested.html and it doesn't print a legible text or images. It's like the ink isn't dark enough to show printouts. I used ghostscript and lprold with no cups. I also tried different resolutions to no avail. No where in the system shows the name or the model of this printer even when I load lp modules. I used to see all before. I think I'm missing something in my SuSE 7.1 so what should I do, please. I even searched Epson site and the whole net. Nothing is even close to what I used to have with the old printer that I hated. thanks in advance
gelah wrote:
hi;
I just bought the Epson Stylus 880, which's been suggested in www.linuxprinting.org/suggested.html and it doesn't print a legible text or images. It's like the ink isn't dark enough to show printouts. I used ghostscript and lprold with no cups. I also tried different resolutions to no avail. No where in the system shows the name or the model of this printer even when I load lp modules. I used to see all before. I think I'm missing something in my SuSE 7.1 so what should I do, please. I even searched Epson site and the whole net. Nothing is even close to what I used to have with the old printer that I hated.
thanks in advance
I would suggest using cups with the printer. I have been using cups with a Tektronix printer (not supported under linux printing) and have had no problems with b/w or color. I believe the 880 is supported under cups. Nevada
"g" == gelah <gelah@bellsouth.net> writes:
g> I just bought the Epson Stylus 880, which's been suggested in g> www.linuxprinting.org/suggested.html and it doesn't print a g> legible text or images. It's like the ink isn't dark enough to g> show printouts. I used ghostscript and lprold with no cups. I g> also tried different resolutions to no avail. In order to get the 880 to work all you have to do is: (1) Download gimp-print (2) Do a ./configure, make , make install (3) Follow the direction in the src/ghost (or src/cups if you want to use cups) directory to recompile ghostscript to include the stp driver. (4) Resetup apsfilter to use stp and you are set. It is well worth doing since the print quality of the stp driver even surpasses the native Windows driver. Charles -- "Computers may be stupid, but they're always obedient. Well, almost always." -- Larry Wall (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates)
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