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Subject: Re: Low end PS laser, or inkjet/bubblejet
To: mmead@Glock.COM (matthew c. mead)
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 12:07:19 +0100 (MET)
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In-Reply-To: <199509281057.GAA04831@Glock.COM> from "matthew c. mead" at Sep 28, 95 06:57:35 am
From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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> 
> On Thu, September 28, 1995 at 08:51:58 (+0100), Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> 
> 	First, thanks for the info...
> 
>  > I'm running an Epson Stylus color (with a hacked gs2.6.1 under FreeBSD
>  > 2.0.5) and it works like a charm. I have two test printouts
>  > escher.ps and colorcirc.ps sticking at the wall and they look fine.
> 
> 	What's the "hacked" refer to?  Will gs262 do this out of the box or
> is there some driver you added?  If there is, what is its public
> availability?

It were the drivers for the epson stylus which are *not*
in the standard gs262 (that should have been 262, btw, the last
'free' gs distribution before gs3.x). I dropped them into
the gs source directory, changed the makefile and rebuilt
gs. That's what I meant by hacking.

> 
>  > A bit a problem is the color trueness (dithering method) and I 
>  > don't see any way to manipulate this other than digging into
>  > the drivers dithering method.
> 
> 	Yeah, that makes sense.  If you hear of any improved driver, please
> let me know - I'd like to integrate it if possible, as I think I'll now
> grab this printer... :-)
> 
>  > > Also, how easy was the printer to setup with freebsd, and can you use its
>  > > highest dpi mode?  Thanks for any pointers, recommendations, and help in
>  > > advance!
> 
>  > Once you are familar with lpr setup it's an easy task.
> 
> 	I kind of figured.  I know BSD lpr/lpd stuff pretty well...
> 
>  > eps|epson-postscript|EPSON Stylus COLOR PostScript:\
>  > 	:lp=/dev/lpt1:\
>  > 	:sd=/var/spool/eps:\
>  > 	:sh:\
>  > 	:of=/usr/local/bin/gseps:\
>  > 	:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
>  > 	:mx#0:
> 
>  > /usr/local/bin/gseps:
> 
>  > #!/bin/sh
>  > /usr/local/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -sDEVICE=escp2cfs2 -r360 -dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=- -
> 
> 	I'd probably end up using apsfilter so that I could just do a plain
> old lpr and it would autodetect both ps and dvi input.
> 
> -matt
> 
> -- 
> Matthew C. Mead
> 
> mmead@Glock.COM              | Network Administration and Software Development
> http://www.Glock.COM/~mmead/ | Consulting: BizNet Technologies -> mmead@bnt.com
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de