First let me say: Thank GOD! Finally an excellent and modern open source
printing system for Unix; I have been waiting for this for decades ...
Any way, I installed cups and it works just fine; but when I tried it
with my Epson Stylus Photo 1270 the quality is just average (not photo)
and the is almost no options on the printer configuration page. So I
went to linuxprinting.org and downloaded the ppd file for the 1270, but
even though it gave more options (a rather strange selection box with
quadrupled items), it made no difference. As a matter of fact I decided
to remove it since it hang (it printed out some error messages about
stack errors and such) my printer a few times; so I guess the file was
not really a good one. The ppd file for the 1270 included with the
drivers rpm seems rather simplistic.
So my question is does some body has a better ppd file for the 1270?
Should I be using another one of the included? There are some for the
'Photo Series' and the other models, but some of the ones I tried (by
clicking into Epson-->Model instead of Manufacturer-->Model; BTW what is
the difference with this??) seem to bypass the filters, since they
printed out the postscript source when printing a test page.
Or, does anyone has any links on how I can write one myself?
Thanks.
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Eugenio Diaz, BSEE/BSCE
Linux Engineer
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