From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 19 22:44:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA23718 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 22:44:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA23713 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 22:44:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id RAA22826; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 17:13:27 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id RAA00742; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 17:13:26 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981120171326.J427@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 17:13:26 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Joe McGuckin , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: EPSON Color ink-jet printers supported? References: <199811200553.VAA07511@monk.via.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199811200553.VAA07511@monk.via.net>; from Joe McGuckin on Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 09:53:22PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 19 November 1998 at 21:53:22 -0800, Joe McGuckin wrote: > > I guess the subject says it all. I'd like to get one of these tree-killers > for printing out full color artwork, digital photos, etc. > > EPSON claims to have Postscript support, but I'm suspicious that all > the the intelligence might be in the Windoze drivers - not the printer > itself. > > Has anyone had any success making FreeBSD work... I have a Stylus 740 Color. It comes with 2 CDs full of junk and almost no useful information. The Epson web sites are also useless. But Ghostscript supports it as a Stylus 500 Color, though the results are a bit pale. I've been meaning to play around with it when I get the time. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message