Peter Chubb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>>>> "Aussie" == Aussie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>
> >> Is anyone using the Epson Stylus Colour Photo 700 with Linux?
>
> Aussie> A small caveat for the Epson printers. A number of them
> Aussie> (typically those in the lower price ranges) are Windows
> Aussie> only. While I am not sure of the support under Linux for such
> Aussie> printers, any printer that cannot have plain text sent to it
> Aussie> for printing should make a Linux user wary. I am not sure if
> Aussie> the 700 is one of these printers or not. I'm sure someone else
> Aussie> will know for sure.
>
> As we'll only be using this for printing photographs, that won't be an
> issue -- we have a laser printer for text and black+white printing.
the stylus colour 700 is _not_ one of those that only work under
M$. I have one (and checked it all out at the time) and it works
fine. I even emailed epson tech support to ask about support under
unix, that was quite a laugh.
> >> Lucy's bought herself a Nikon negative scanner, and now we're
> >> looking for a printer capable of near-photo-quality output. There
> >> are specials on in various shops at present for the '700
sounds similar to what my chick wants to do, except we bought
the printer first and are about to buy the scanner probably this
weekend (an Agfa 1236s most likely BTW).
> Aussie> Thought about a Canon? I've compared some Epsons with Canons,
> Aussie> and the Canons appear to produce a slightly better print
> Aussie> quality, in some cases better than HP (which is a surprise).
>
> We did look at some Canon printers.
>
> The only printer Canon claim to be of near-photo quality is the CD300
> which is quite limited in what it can do --- 300x300DPI, maximum paper
> size 248x100mm, and only works with Windows.
when we looked at printers (a while ago, maybe up to 1 year) the
epson stylus colour 700 was easily the best one for photo quality.
I can't tell you much about it though cos we print photos under
lose95 - it's noticeably better printout quality than under linux.
That could possibly be improved though, I just set it up under
RedHat printtool and haven't tweaked anything at all. It prints
(colour and B&W) fine under netscape, wordperfect, xv etc etc under
linux (and from solaris too remote printing to the linux box) it's
just that for photo quality lose95 turns out better. I haven't got
it working under samba yet so we just pull the plug and plug it
into my chick's lose95 PC when we want to print photos.
Dave.
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