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Subject says it all...

Thanks for any info.

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Michel

Quote:> Subject says it all...

Quote:> Thanks for any info.

Mark Daku

Quote:> > > Subject says it all...

> > I'll add the stylus 600 to the list of printers.

> > > Thanks for any info.

> > Mklinux has some stylus support but the pmac version isn't out yet.

>   I'm not sure the subject says it all.  Are you saying the 600 is or
> will be supported?  If so, how?  How about the 800 and Stylus Photo?

Yes lets toss in all the Epson Varients.  However I would focus on
the ones that are in the majority at first.

From what I gather the 500 and 600 are the most popular today.

I know that the Ghostscript package has some crude capabilites for the
500's under mklinux.  I mostly concerned with the pmac version of linux.

Mark Daku

Quote:> > Yes lets toss in all the Epson Varients.  However I would focus on
> > the ones that are in the majority at first.

> > From what I gather the 500 and 600 are the most popular today.

> > I know that the Ghostscript package has some crude capabilites for the
> > 500's under mklinux.  I mostly concerned with the pmac version of linux.

> > Mark Daku

>   Ghostscript supports esc/p2, which is what the 600, 800, and photo all
> use.  The problem (with the 800 and photo), I believe, is they use a high
> serial speed that is currently unsupported.  I don't know if there is a way
> to tell the printer you want to use a slower speed, or if there is a way to
> speed up the serial port within linux.  My Stylus photo manual says that it
> uses RS-423 serial interface, X-ON/X-OFF DTR protocol, 8, N, 1, 1 and
> 900Kbps (wow that's fast).

As an aside I remember seeing in the faq how to change the serial port speed.
At this time I can not see the FAQ as our Firewall is blocking me.

Mark Daku

Quote:> > > I know that the Ghostscript package has some crude capabilites for the
> > > 500's under mklinux.  I mostly concerned with the pmac version of linux.

Quote:

> Sorry to bug all of you on this topic again.  But what is the first version
> of ghostscript that supports the "esc/p2" interface.

> As an aside I remember seeing in the faq how to change the serial port speed.

1. There is a Epson Stylus Color 500 HOWTO in the linuxppc-FAQ-O-Matic. With
little
modifications, this had worked for me before I did a new installation from the
Feb98 CD.
The problem is that this CD contains (for some political reasons that I don't
want to know)
an ancient version of ghostscript, 3.33 or something.

2. ghostscript-4.03 had a 'stcolor' device that worked as described in the
HOWTO.
The most recent ghostscript-5.10 also contains a 'stcolor.ps' file, but the
*.ppc.rm on the
servers is compiled without the 'stcolor' device. So you either have to
recompile gs or
use the 'uniprint' device instead. Both have the same author, and uniprint is
more recent.
See /usr/doc/ghostscript/devices.txt. 'uniprint' is the one with ESC/P2
interfaces for the
stylus color 500/600/800. This is what I am using now, and I'll describe what I
had to
do to use it.

3. As in the HOWTO, you have to initialise the serial port. For the 500, you
put a file containing the 2 lines
             #!/bin/sh
             stty raw 57600 crtscts -echo < /dev/cua1
into /etc/rc.d/rc3.d. The cua1 is the printer port, cua0 would be the modem
port.
I created a file 'stcolor.init' with the above 2 lines in the directory
/etc/rc.d/init.d
and then made a symlink in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d: S70stcolor ->
../init.d/stcolor.init.
The file names do not matter, only the S70 bit. Make sure that the file is
executable.

4. You can now print (after rebooting, or running the command from 3. manually)
a postscript file 'file.ps' using the line

This is 360x360. For 720x720, you use stc500ph.upp

5. In order to install printer queues for use with lpr, you have to have
printtool and
rhs-printfilters installed. You have to change the file
/usr/lib/rhs/rhs-printfilters/printerdb.
This file contains the printer types shown by printtool. But printtool shows
only those printer
types that use an existing gs device. So you have to add an entry using
'uniprint' as device.
The simplest way is to look for the entry describing the Stylus Color 500 and
change the
stcolor device (which doesn't work with gs-5.10 anyway) into uniprint.
Then in printtool, this new printer type shows up, and it just remains to put
the line

into the 'Extra GS options' box.

That's all. I wouldn't call this driver 'crude'. It works very nicely for me.

Martin Costabel

Total snippage.

Thank-you Martin

You provide me with the missing link.

For those of you wonderying what this is all about some time ago
I posted a followup to this thread about the Stylus 600.  Martin
had the answer.  To avoid bandwidth consumption I didn't quote.
I know that this group has many a clone out there and is cached
on list servers out there.

Mark Daku