On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Chip Grandits wrote: > I wish to use an Epson Stylus Color 800 for printing from my Linux > System.
You should be able to use this printer with Linux. i use a STC600 with few problems, none serious. AFAIK, Epson Stylys Color printers are among the best-supported non-PostScript printers. My two problems are (1) Printing from Netscape wants a 2 inch margin at the top of the page... i can fix this by manually changing "54 0 translate" to "54 54 translate" using vi. Anyone know an easier way? (2) i seem to have to clean the ink cartridges way too frequently... i am using the proper kind, and am properly turning off the printer. > I am unable to figure out how to set up my Linux system to print from > available documentation. I am running Debian v2.0 with Linux Kernel > 2.0.34 (i.e. <=2.1.32 so I have lp device) I believe I have > successfully set up LPRng and have found my parallel port on /dev/lp1 Sounds right... > My first problem is I don't understand the syntax of the printcap > file. [[[SNIP]]] > I think I am suppose to set up a filter program, the HOWTO recommends > APSfilter, so I installed the latest debian package. I attempt to > configure APSfilter, where I print a test page, I was unable to do so > until I upgraded my version of ghostscript, I am now running > gs-aladdin version 5.5. i've never used APSfilter. You may want to try magicfilter, it includes a utility (magicfilterconfig) that will ask you questions and then write a functional printcap file for you. Your problem with the printing _may_ be that it wants a directory "MyArbitraryName" in /var/spool/lpd... But this is just a guess. > No linux resources mention the Epson Stylus Color 800 by name. They > mention the Epson Color Stylus (by which they mean Stylus II or Stylus > Pro) They mention the Espons Stylus 800 (but not Color) However the > Epson Stylus Color 800 is none of the above. magicfilter contains a generic Epson Stylus Color filter, which can easily be tuned for a STC800 (i also have gs-alladin 5.50 installed, so these directions shouldn't cause much trouble). Once you have magicfilter installed, copy the stylus_color_???dpi-filter to something like stylus_color800_???dpi-filter. Then edit the files: in 360dpi, change "@stc2.upp" to "@stc800pl.upp" in the three places it occurs. The 720dpi filter seems to already use the stc800.upp driver, so you should need no changes there. If you really want, you could also create a 1440dpi file, using "@stc800ih.upp" in those three places. > Ghostscript documentation mentions something about using their unified > printer driver with a unified printer parameter file for the Epson > Stylus Color 800 but I'm not sure how I would configure ASPfilter or > if I should still use it. Does anybody use this? See above ;) > But first I would like to be able to simply print an ASCII file, which > I have yet been able to do. Have you tried catting the file to /dev/lp1? This _should_ print an ASCII file at the least.
