----- Original Message ----- From: "Brant Fitzsimmons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 01:33
Subject: Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer
I have one and am very happy with it. Here's a link to it's page on epson.com.
http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/consumer/consDetail.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&oid=22708391&modeloid=14417&infoType=Downloads
I have the printer connected to my Mandrake box and have Samba set
up to
share the network printer on the network. When I print from my Win
2000
box (using the Win 2000 drivers-you have to install them in order to print to the Mandrake hosted printer) I get really fast print
speeds.
When I print from a program on the Mandrake box (Mozilla, The GIMP, etc.) I don't get the same speeds. The speed is acceptable, but it really flies when you initiate a print job from the Win 2000
machine.
Anyone having the same experience?
sorry brant, dun have an answer to your qn, but i do have a qn for you...
i presume u're using the Epson C82, since that was model referred to previously in this thread.
you compared the speed of printout for windoze and linux, but how's the quality? is there a noticeable difference? also, which driver are you under linux?
thanks
The print quality is very good when initiated from either Windows or Linux. It's just faster under Windows. The printing speed between the two is about the same. It's the paper loading that is very fast when initiated by Windows. I would be *very* happy if I could get it to load that fast when initiated with Mozilla on Mandrake.
I'm using the CUPS + GIMP-Print v4.2.5 driver.
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