I'm answering my own post :-). While playing around with mtink (BTW - a great utility for Epson printers), I discovered that the "check nozzle" button printed bad output too. So I ran "clean nozzle" a couple of times and now print output is excellent. I can only guess that the initial ink charging routine (a hardware button on the printer) didn't work properly. I hope (but don't know for sure) that this was also responsible for the printer stopping several times. In any case, it hasn't happend since I cleaned the nozzles.
On Wednesday 13 April 2005 00:01, shlomo Solomon wrote: > I just installed this printer. I've used many Epson printers on my LINUX > box and had only good results (stylus II, 670 and 580 all printed well). > > In fact, the installation went much better than in the past. I had the > printer running in under 5 minutes. But print quality is REALLY bad. And, > in fact, several times the printer just stopped printing half way through > the test page. > > Before buying the printer I Googled and found that this printer is > supported and uses either the c40ux or c42ux drivers. I've tried both (and > several other related models). Some of the drivers (for instance the c42ux) > offered the choice of foomatic or gimp and I tried both of them. > > System details in my signature. > > If someone has this printer and can suggest what to do, I'd be grateful. > > TIA -- Shlomo Solomon http://the-solomons.net Sent by KMail 1.7.1 (KDE 3.2.3) on LINUX Mandrake 10.1 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
