On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> Someone was asking yesterday about printers for Linux - sorry, already deleted
> that message.
> Anyway, there was a discussion about that last week, and the people using Epson
> printers were pretty happy with their products. Being in the market for a new
> one myself, I took their advice and picked up an Epson Stylus Color 740 (they
> were saying that the Photo700 was great). I am VERY PLEASED with it! It is much
> better than my old printer was (hp600). The basic rule that the newbies
> repeatedly mention is that the hp7xx printers are "winprinters" and will not
> work. As I was looking at printers, the "Linux specialist" at the store said
> practically all Epsons are supported. I had to download a driver for the 740,
> and it is rated as working almost perfectly. There were several printers from
> Epson (and other makers) listed as working perfectly. You might check this page
> out to help you in your search for a good printer:
> http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi
> Lance
I have a HP695C printer connected to a win95 box that I access through my
network with Mandy6.1, and I have to say that it works perfectly.
No problems setting it up useing the Redhat printtool kindly supplied in the
mandrake distribution and color/graphics work fine.
It is true that "photoquality" is a bit rough, but then it is just as bad in
windoze but basicly it works just as well through Linux as it does in windoze.
Just giving my 3 cents worth :-)
Cheers:
Mike Perry.
