Hello, all, I recently purchased a 740 for my home network. I have a Debian 2.1 server with magicfilter and gs-5.10 installed. I was unable to get the printer to work with any of the normally available filters in magicfilter.
After scouring the 'net, I found Christian Meder's debian-epson740.tgz file. I downloaded and unpacked it, read the README, and put all the files in their recommended places. I ran magicfilterconfig --force to create the four queues, then edited the printcap to exactly match the one included. Still, nothing happens at all when I try to use lpr to print any file. I am able to do 'cat [textfile] > /dev/lp1' as root (I'm using 2.0.38 kernel) successfully, so the printer and parport are at least functioning. My HP 660Cse works perfectly with the dj550c filter. I am a fairly experienced Debian user, but unfortunately I have no hacking skills. If I can get it working, I would be very willing to put together a simple Epson740-mini-HOWTO and put it up on mattyt.net for us mere mortals. :) Any help you can give will be very much appreciated. Cheers.................................. Matthew Thompson http://mattyt.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~mattyt --Someday, I'll have a web page.--