Printing to an Epson Stylus Photo 750

[Thomas Carlson]

Thanks for the reply, Geoff.  Yes, I had seen your posts relating to 
installing foomatic drivers from www.linuxprinting.org.  Aren't these 
drivers already available through yum?  One can yum install 
cups-drivers (this package isn't installed as a part of CUPS by 
default!?) and see them listed in the CUPS web interface OK.  Problem 
is,  while there are about four of them for the Epson Stylus Photo 750 
they just don't work very well.  I get some initial output and can 
print a test page OK, but when I try to change the resolution, etc. I 
get pages of gibberish, or nothing.  The whole printing thing in YDL is 
definitely FUBAR.  Wish they would spend some time getting a handle on 
the basics like printing before they boldly head off into 64-bit land.

Tom

On Apr 10, 2004, at 8:57 PM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:

> Thomas Carlson wrote:
>> A while back (March) I asked for some help with getting my Epson 
>> Stylus
>> Photo 750 working with YDL 3.0 on my Powermac 9500.  I had pretty much
>> given up trying to connect to it through the printer port and had 
>> asked
>> about a recommendation for a PCI USB card.  Nathan suggested a Belkin
>> and I managed to find one on Ebay.  It works fine.  Thanks, Nathan.
>> The CUPS web interface now can see the printer just as nice as can be,
>> and I can get some basic black and white output using one of the few
>> Epson drivers that I am able to see in the.  If I, then, try to change
>> to the LinuxPrinting.org recommended Gimp-Print driver using the 
>> Redhat
>> Printer Configuration utility I get not output at all, as has always
>> been the case with that worthless piece of junk.  My question is:
>> Using the CUPS web interface, how do I get access to the Foomatic and
>> Gimp-Print drivers that are installed in my system, and that the 
>> Redhat
>> utility is able to see well enough?
>
>
> Ditch the redhat utility. CUPS has it's own that works much better. 
> Look
> in the archives for my posts on the subject, or email me for them.
>
> Geoff,
> -- 
> Geoffrey S. Mendelson gsm@mendelson.com
>
>
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