On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> > [Sorry forgot to CC to cooker..]
>
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 07:25:29PM -0500, Bryan Paxton wrote:
> > Has anyone wrote a print filter for epson stylus color 860 ?
> > The generic epson stylus color and up whatever doesn't work.
> > This is a very popular printer.
>
> I can only tell you, that it runs on a debian machine at the
> high school where I'm studying, don't know which printer driver
> is installed there though :-(.
>
> ghostscript includes the so called uniprint drivers where you
> can add your own if you have the correct printer commands (from
> your manual). By searching in the internet I found such for my
> BJC6000 (and BJC6100) printer. Probably you will find such for
> this printer as well. You can also try the linux printer homepage
> (I don't know the URL though :-( )
>
> There is support for gimp by the (now alpha version) of gimp-print.
> This works very well for my printer. Try gimp-print.sourceforge.net
> or sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-print. I also created a SPEC file
> for that one. Supported are Epson, Canon and HP Printers as well
> as Postscript Level1/2 and the Lexmark 4076.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Reinhard Katzmann
>
> P.S.: Did you try out the new cups package ? Don't know which
> additional printers are included there but it would be nice to
> know if Canon BJC6000 and the Epson is included there.
No, I can't get anything working over here : (
And no i haven't tried cups.
I'm not too disapointed about it really, being that I _never_ print anything
out. But like I said this is a popular printer, and I know other people would
be.
--
Bryan Paxton
