On Sun, 4 Mar 2001 16:32:24 -0900 Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:38:38AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > if it isn't going to work right in color there is no sense keeping > this printer. its cheaper to get a used postscript laser off ebay. I bought an Epson 680 yesterday and spent much of the day trying to get good output with the gimp-print plugin. I was disappointed that the print quality wasn't as good as that from the Windows drivers. May be with lots of tweaking of settings . . Anyway, right at the end of the evening, I noticed a posting on the Linux-usb board about a driver Epson in Japan had written for the 680/777, 880 and 980 models. I downloaded the rpm and it installed cleanly onto my Debian box. The print quality is everything I wanted *and* there is a GUI tool for setting paper type, print quality etc.. Wonderful!! I have never seen such good quality colour printing from Linux before. You need to add the stanza in /etc/printcap manually, and also the spool file, but it is all explained in the release notes. Took all of 5 minutes to get working. Not sure if it will apply to your model, but worth a try. The url is: http://www.epkowa.co.jp/english/pro_e/pips_e.html Fingers crossed. -- Phillip Deackes Using Progeny Debian Linux
