[Gimp-print-devel] Re: Epson Stylus 860

[Robert L K. <rl...@al...>]

   From: "Frank J. Ramsay" <fj...@ma...>
   Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 15:47:25 -0500

	   Does anyone have experience getting printers to work under
   Linux?  I just picked up an Epsilon Stylus 860.  I want to connect
   it to my Linux box (I'll put it on my windows machine and use it as
   a smb share if I have to) I'm running RH 6.0, I can't find anything
   in linuxconfig and when I try and use the "Red Hat Linux Print
   System Manager" under the control-panel it can not detect anything
   on /dev/lp0 /dev/lp1 or /dev/lp2 Does anyone have any ideas?

Hi.  I'm currently leading a project to enhance the Gimp print plugin
on sourceforge.net (the project is named gimp-print).  One of our
major goals is to improve support for inkjet printers, including
Epson.  This work will lead to a Ghostscript driver in addition to the
Gimp plugin (actually, that's the much more important goal).

Currently we do not have support for the Stylus 860, but any
information you have on that printer would be very welcome to us.  We
need information such as number of jets, any particular features of
the printer, and so forth.  Furthermore, if you install this printer
under Windows, we would appreciate a (small!) sample print file from
this printer, which will help us understand how to program it.
Printing any kind of test pattern would be helpful, but please keep it
small (about 1" square is just about right).

Please check out our project on Sourceforge
(https://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=1537).  You may subscribe
to gimp-print-devel or gimp-print-announce if you'd like.

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