O.k. here's the scenario:
Linux-Mandrake 7.0 (GPL) installed on a Dell OptiPlex GX PIII-500 w/
384MB RAM
Printer = Epson Stylus 640
Linux-Mandrake is one of the few distro's that got my printer to work
the first time, w/ no arcane wand waving and editing of /etc/printcap,
or other nasty files. I have gotten it to work, sorta, w/ SuSE, RedHat,
and Corel. Mandrake is just the easiest and most seamless. Now for the
problem.
Under whatever flavor of linux that I have actually gotten the printer
to work on, I have noticed a few oddities that don't seem to rear their
ugly heads under Win98. These are:
A) Every print job, the printer seems to take forever to get started.
Acts like it is cleaning
the heads, even for a simple one line text file. I would rather not
have to replace ink jet
cartridges un-necessarily.
B) It manages to not feed the sheets straight, about ninety percent of
the time. It ranges from
being just slightly off (~1/8 or so), to flat out crumpling the paper
and jamming the feeder
(rare, but it does happen).
Like I said, this doesn't seem to happen under Win98, but it seems
present under any flavor of Linux. I am using the stc600 driver. Does
anyone have any experience w/ a different driver working better?
Thanks for your time,
Monte
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