Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 12:07:19 +0100 (MET) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: mmead@Glock.COM (matthew c. mead) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Low end PS laser, or inkjet/bubblejet Message-ID: <199509281107.MAA14754@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <199509281057.GAA04831@Glock.COM> from "matthew c. mead" at Sep 28, 95 06:57:35 am
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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
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