Re: Epson Stylus C84 printer setup

2005-01-05 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
At Wed, 5 Jan 2005 it looks like Miguel Mendez composed: > On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 21:10:46 -0800 > "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > A bit OT but wanted to throw my $0.02 anyway... > > > CUPS is unnecessary. unnecessary software complicates the machine > > and makes it har

RE: Epson Stylus C84 printer setup

2005-01-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: Miguel Mendez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 2:21 AM > To: Ted Mittelstaedt > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Epson Stylus C84 printer setup > > > On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 21:10:46 -0800 &

RE: Epson Stylus C84 printer setup

2005-01-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ramiro Aceves > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 2:06 AM > To: Ted Mittelstaedt > Cc: S Salamander; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Epson Stylus C84 printer setup >

Re: Epson Stylus C84 printer setup

2005-01-05 Thread Miguel Mendez
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 21:10:46 -0800 "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, A bit OT but wanted to throw my $0.02 anyway... > CUPS is unnecessary. unnecessary software complicates the machine > and makes it harder to troubleshoot. I don't personally care much > for this. I don't unde

Re: Epson Stylus C84 printer setup

2005-01-05 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Hello Ted Many thanks for your response. Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Have you heard of the KISS principle? no :-( > > CUPS is unnecessary. unnecessary software complicates the machine > and makes it harder to troubleshoot. I don't personally care much > for this. I understand now. I agree with you.

RE: Epson Stylus C84 printer setup

2005-01-04 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
ing on FreeBSD. Ted > -Original Message- > From: Ramiro Aceves [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 1:50 AM > To: Ted Mittelstaedt > Cc: S Salamander; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Epson Stylus C84 printer setup > > > Ted Mit

Re: Epson Stylus C84 printer setup

2005-01-04 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Why in heavens name are you bothering with CUPS? Hello Ted and people there. I have working my Epson C84 in FreeBSD 5.3 perfectly with CUPS and gimp -print. Just curious. ¿What is the matter with CUPS?. I do not understand well what "GPL-crutch" means. I seems that you

RE: Epson Stylus C84 printer setup

2005-01-03 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
gt; From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of S Salamander > Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 5:23 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Epson Stylus C84 printer setup > > > I'm trying to get my Epson Stylus C84 printer setup with CUPS and > gimp-p

Re: Epson Stylus C84 printer setup

2005-01-03 Thread S Salamander
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 19:13:43 -0700, Jon Drews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It appears that you should use the C82 driver. From: > http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Epson-Stylus_C84 > Parallel and USB ports. > > With Gimp-Print 4.2.2 or newer it will work (except full-bleed) when

Re: Epson Stylus C84 printer setup

2005-01-03 Thread Jon Drews
when choosing the C80 as printer model. On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 20:22:43 -0500, S Salamander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to get my Epson Stylus C84 printer setup with CUPS and > gimp-print (both of which are installed). The cups daemon is running > and I can access l

Epson Stylus C84 printer setup

2005-01-03 Thread S Salamander
I'm trying to get my Epson Stylus C84 printer setup with CUPS and gimp-print (both of which are installed). The cups daemon is running and I can access localhost:631 for the administrative setup. However, don't see the option to use the CUPS/gimp-print driver. There is no PPD file as