Linux & Epson Stylus Colour 300

Linux & Epson Stylus Colour 300

Post by Sam Vere (the fant » Tue, 06 Oct 1998 04:00:00



Out of interest, does anyone know if there is a ghostscript driver for
the Epson Stylus Colour 300? I personally doubt it, but you never do
know.

I'm not too worried, mind. I've got an old dot-matrix which is much
cheaper to feed anyway. That one definitely isn't a winprinter.
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Linux & Epson Stylus Colour 300

Post by Kurt Wa » Wed, 07 Oct 1998 04:00:00


Sam Vere (the fantom) pleaded:
%Out of interest, does anyone know if there is a ghostscript driver for
%the Epson Stylus Colour 300? I personally doubt it, but you never do
%know.
%
%I'm not too worried, mind. I've got an old dot-matrix which is much
%cheaper to feed anyway. That one definitely isn't a winprinter.

Here are a couple of links that should help you.  I used them,
and my Epson Stylus Color 600 prints like a champ.  The 300
shouldn't be that much different, but I could be wrong.

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http://www.u.arizona.edu/~zdw/uniprint.html
http://www.caldera.com/support/techguide/styluscolor.html

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     Get ghostscript 5.10 (the Aladdin version), and make sure
         it has the upp driver.  Precompiled ones ought to, but you
         can compile it yourself if you want.  The following command
         filters PostScript to 720dpi ESC2 which you can feed directly
         to the printer:


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There is also an Epson Stylus HOWTO at:
     http://www.eunuchs.org/linux/

A great source for RPMs that already have ESC support is:
http://www.typhoon.dircon.co.uk
-or is it-
http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~typhoon

Read the README files.

This RPM includes Epson Stylus drivers up to 1440 dpi as well as
several HP drivers not found in the standard Ghostscript
distribution. Some of the HP printers these work on are the HP 500,
500C, 510, 520, 540, 550C, 560C, 670, 690, 820C, 850C, 855C, 870, 890,
1100 and 1600 as well as all PCL-3 printers tested.  There are lots of
docs for these drivers and a man page for the hpdj driver.
This RPM includes all the post release patches up to and including
June 26 1998. This RPM also includes support for True Type fonts. See
the file fonts.txt for instructions.

Some of the included drivers drivers are:

vgalib : vga consoles
lvga256: vga consoles
stcolor: Epson Stylus
uniprint: Epson Stylus Color, Canon BJC 610, HP-Deskjet 550c, NEC

Run "gs -h" to see the full list of drivers. The files devs.mak,
devices.txt and use.txt hold information on the included drivers and
using the program.

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Some great instructions for configuring your ESC come from Rod

1) Grab the Ghostscript 5.10 RPMs from http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~typhoon/.
   Install them.
2) Edit the /var/spool/lpd/{spoolname}/postscript.cfg file so that the
   GSDEVICE line reads 'GSDEVICE=uniprint' and the EXTRA_GS_OPTIONS line

   720x1440 dpi.
3) If desired, create additional print queues with other names, and
   specify different .upp files in postscript.cfg for different
   resolutions.  Three are supplied for the ESC 600 with Ghostscript 5.10.
4) The color curves in the .upp files for at least some Epson printers are
   off.  I don't recall the details, but if you're dissatisfied with the
   color balance on your color printouts, try swapping the color curves in
   the .upp files (these are the blocks of lines with names like
   '-dupCyanTransfer=' and a bunch of numbers.  I think it's cyan and
   magenta that need to be swapped, but it might be yellow and one of the
   others.  I might also be thinking of the ESC 800's color curves, so
   this may not apply to you, though of course you can still fiddle with
   these curves if you don't like the color balance you get on your
   output.
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Rod Smith

http://www.users.fast.net/~rodsmith
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Kurt

 
 
 

1. epson stylus color 300

My epson stylus color 300 worked fine under windows until I uninstalled
windows ;).
Using gs3.33 or gs5.10 under Redhat linux 4.3 I have never managed to get
colour out of it. 360 dpi is black, but appears to be made with mixed colours
and 180dpi is a bluish black and not very clear. I use the stcolor driver
after recompiling ghostscript (gs is a bitch to configure and compile!!).
Mail me if you know anything *anything* about gs and epson 300's.

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