[newbie] epson stylus color 740 and laptops
I just bought an epson stylus color 740 printer that i would like to get working under linux 6.1. I used printtool hit the add button. It said it found a device at lp0. I hit the select button and choose the epson one (i think it is the last one that says epson color). In that category, there is no 740, only a 600 inkjet and a 800 inkjet. I first choes 800, hit ok, and then tried to print a test page in all three formats and nothing happened. Same thing when i chose the 600. Any suggestions? Also, i am interested in getting a nice laptop for a low price. Maybe a pentium 3 450, 128 mb ram, 14 " display, 4-6x dvd, modem, ethernet card, 10gb hard disk. I am currently looking at the a company at www.pro-star.com. Does anybody have any other suggestions as to another company with better and/or cheaper laptops? Any help you could offer would greatly be appreciated. thanks, jas
Re: [newbie] epson stylus color 740 and laptops
I am using a PRO STAR / Saeger they work well with Linux. There tech support is not good however but they work well Jeanette - Original Message - From: Jaswinder S. Ahluwalia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 21, 1999 1:29 PM Subject: [newbie] epson stylus color 740 and laptops I just bought an epson stylus color 740 printer that i would like to get working under linux 6.1. I used printtool hit the add button. It said it found a device at lp0. I hit the select button and choose the epson one (i think it is the last one that says epson color). In that category, there is no 740, only a 600 inkjet and a 800 inkjet. I first choes 800, hit ok, and then tried to print a test page in all three formats and nothing happened. Same thing when i chose the 600. Any suggestions? Also, i am interested in getting a nice laptop for a low price. Maybe a pentium 3 450, 128 mb ram, 14 " display, 4-6x dvd, modem, ethernet card, 10gb hard disk. I am currently looking at the a company at www.pro-star.com. Does anybody have any other suggestions as to another company with better and/or cheaper laptops? Any help you could offer would greatly be appreciated. thanks, jas
Re: [newbie] epson stylus color 740 and laptops
I don't remember the web address where I found them, but I'm sending you some files direct to your e-mail address that work for the epson 740. I have it too. Original Message On 11/21/99, 12:29:03 PM, "Jaswinder S. Ahluwalia" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] epson stylus color 740 and laptops: I just bought an epson stylus color 740 printer that i would like to get working under linux 6.1. I used printtool hit the add button. It said it found a device at lp0. I hit the select button and choose the epson one (i think it is the last one that says epson color). In that category, there is no 740, only a 600 inkjet and a 800 inkjet. I first choes 800, hit ok, and then tried to print a test page in all three formats and nothing happened. Same thing when i chose the 600. Any suggestions? Also, i am interested in getting a nice laptop for a low price. Maybe a pentium 3 450, 128 mb ram, 14 " display, 4-6x dvd, modem, ethernet card, 10gb hard disk. I am currently looking at the a company at www.pro-star.com. Does anybody have any other suggestions as to another company with better and/or cheaper laptops? Any help you could offer would greatly be appreciated. thanks, jas
Re: [newbie] epson stylus color 740 and laptops
"Jaswinder S. Ahluwalia" wrote: I just bought an epson stylus color 740 printer that i would like to get working under linux 6.1. I used printtool hit the add button. It said it found a device at lp0. I hit the select button and choose the epson one (i think it is the last one that says epson color). In that category, there is no 740, only a 600 inkjet and a 800 inkjet. I first choes 800, hit ok, and then tried to print a test page in all three formats and nothing happened. Same thing when i chose the 600. Any suggestions? Also, i am interested in getting a nice laptop for a low price. Maybe a pentium 3 450, 128 mb ram, 14 " display, 4-6x dvd, modem, ethernet card, 10gb hard disk. I am currently looking at the a company at www.pro-star.com. Does anybody have any other suggestions as to another company with better and/or cheaper laptops? Any help you could offer would greatly be appreciated. thanks, jas jas, I had the same problem with my Epson sc600 and Steve Philp helped me by suggesting I amend printcap to change the lp0:\ line to read: lp| lp0:\ . That worked but I then found when installing M6.1 0n my son's IBM laptop (he has an sc600 as well) that simply not adding the 0 to lp during install provided a fix. I think there is a setup error that says a printer is detected at lp0 but then looks for it at lp. But then I am an absolute newbie so take that with a grain of salt. Good luck. -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street, NOOSAVILLE, QLD, 4566, AUSTRALIA Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 Fax: Phone first.
