CORRECTION Re: [ILUG] CUPS support for Epson Stylus C64 Printer

[Brian Foster]

  | Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 01:33:19 +0000
  | From: Peter Dempsey <pod at dna.ie>
  | 
  | On Tuesday 24 February 2004 18:47, Brian Foster wrote:
  | >  well, it turns out I am 100% wrong --- the (old,
  | >  low-end printer) software I downloaded and use
  | >  _is_ just a wrapper, as Paul postulated.
  | 
  | I bought [ an Epson C64 ] a couple of weeks
  | ago and have had a stab at getting it going.
  | [ AFAICR ] I got it printing black text by spoofing
  | it as a stylus c61 [ ... ]
  | 
  | So, in summary, what were the steps you took to get this
  | printer working.

 downloaded the correct software for my printer from EPKowa
 (my printer is not a C6x-series but a lower-end model).

 ran the install scripts.

 (later) added “modprobe printer‟ to the rc file to insure
 that that USB module was present (AFAICR, I had problems
 if the system rebooted when the printer was on(?)).

 added it to my LPng /etc/printcap (I don't use CUPS),
 as a PostScript printer (since that seems to be one
 of the c.3(?) inputs the EPKowa software accepts).

 my default printer is a pseudo-printer which uses
 `apsfilter' to feed that PostScript printer.

 I do not use The Gimp (much), and on the (very rare!)
 occasions I want to print an image, I use xv(1) to
 convert it to PostScript .....    (on fact, I did not
 know you could print from The Gimp; and now, after a
 _quick_ look at the pull-down menus in 1.2.2, still
 don't see anything for printing?)   _guessing_, I
 could probably feed some image formats directly to
 the `apsfilter'-default, since it seems to be able
 to handle a lot of stuff; besides PostScript, about
 the only format I feed directly (sometimes) is DVI.

 AFAICR, it was all very straightforward.

cheers!
	-blf-
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