I changed to the 680 printer driver, as suggested by one of the respondants. My Epson Stylus Color 777 is printing beautifully now.
Thanks a lot to both of the people who responded. Mel >Hi, >I also have the 777 and in 8.0 I used the 680 >drivers and upped the dpi to >360 in qt-cups. You can fiddle with the settings >to suit your wishes, but >the main one is the dpi. They default to like >180 or something. They work good in 8.1. -s --- Mel Roman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 18:37:28 -0700 (PDT) > From: Mel Roman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Problem printing to Epson Stylus Color 777 > To: Newbie Linux - mandrake Mail Group > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hello all: > > I've been trying to get my Epson Stylus Color 777 > printer to print properly under Linux Mandrake 8.0 > using CUPS, but am having some difficulties. When I > print a simple text document, text is printed very > lightly and little grey dots are printed in the > background. I suspect there might be problem with > the > driver. The driver info is as follows: > > Epson Stylus Color 777 > CUPS+GIMP-print v4.1.5 > > Does anybody know what's wrong? Is anyone else able > to get their Epson Stylus Color 777 to print > properly? > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Thanks in advance, > > Mel Roman > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. > http://phone.yahoo.com > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. http://phone.yahoo.com
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