Jean J Taoko pleaded:
%Hi
%can someone help me :
%I have some trouble with my epson stylus color 300. The first thing I
%tried when I bought it was
%ls > /dev/lp1. It prints but not what is expected.
%So I installed LPRng-3.51, Magicfilter and Ghostscript-5.50. But I don't
%know how to manage with the Magicfilter and the file stc.upp. What
%should I do if I want to print postcript and text files?
Here are a couple of links that should help you. I used them,
and my Epson Stylus Color 600 prints like a champ. While not
directly applicable to the 300, they should give you some information
that you will find helpful.
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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.
--
Rod Smith
http://www.users.fast.net/~rodsmith
NOTE: Remove the digit and following word from my address to mail me
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Kurt Wall
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Maintainer of the Informix on Linux FAQ:
http://www.users.uswest.net/~kwall/iolfaq.html