Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 09:17:02 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "A. Ling" <aling@alum.mit.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Did you get Epson 740 to work? Message-ID: <19981121091702.E1005@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199811202240.RAA16330@min.net>; from A. Ling on Fri, Nov 20, 1998 at 05:38:56PM -0400 References: <199811202240.RAA16330@min.net>
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On Friday, 20 November 1998 at 17:38:56 -0400, A. Ling wrote: > I see you posted about this color inkjet about a month ago (but no response > was listed). I'm thinking of buying an Epson 640 for Christmas mainly for the > kids to use under Win 3.1, but would like to occasionally print charts/images > eg from Star Office. Did you get yours set up, or did you return it? Please > forgive the direct mail, but you could cc -questions to get it into the archives > if you like. It appears to me that the printer-specific issues seem to be > handled by ghostscript under FreeBSD, but it's not clear from > http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/printer.html whether support for Epson 600 > through stcolor or uniprint devices in fact apply to the 640/740. Thanks very > much (in advance). Yes, I got it to work as a 500. The 600 emulation doesn't work because they have a different number of jets (IIRC 32 for the 600, 48 for the 740, and 64 for the 800). I'm hoping somebody will come up with parameters for the 740. From what I can see, it's not too complicated, but Epson has *no* documentation on the 2 CDs they supply with the printer. Brain dead. Here's what I have in my /etc/printcap: c|ep740ps|epson740ps|Epson Stylus Color 740 with PostScript:\ :lp=/dev/lpt0:sd=/var/spool/output/lsp:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:sh:mx#0:\ :if=/usr/local/libexec/psfilter2: and here's /usr/local/libexec/psfilter2: #!/bin/sh /usr/local/bin/gs @stc500ph.upp -q -sPaperSize=a4 -dNOPAUSE - -c quit 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
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