No, this printer isn't _that_ old. I think it was
purchased about a year and a half ago. It is an inkjet
printer, but it does seem like the wheels or rolls or
whatever feeds the paper thru aren't quite running the same
speed. But again, how would that be linux specific?
Monte
--- "Brian T. Schellenberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> That really *is* odd. Are you sure that this is
> consistent,
> reproducable behavior?
>
> Is this an ancient printer, perhaps?
>
> I had an old one that could be either tractor-fed or
> sheet fed (like a
> typewriter), and if switched into sheet-feed mode it
> would do that.
>
> Is it possible that the linux driver is putting it into
> sheed-fed mode
> but you have tractor-fed paper in there (does anybody
> still use that
> stuff?)
>
> Definately a shot in the dark here!
>
> On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> | 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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