> I've got an Epson Stylus Colour 850 and a Stylus Photo 870 working under
> RedHat 6.1. Basically I hacked together and built a rpm of ghostscript
> with the STP driver (from http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net). Then I
> modified printerdb and used printtool to configure the lpd spools. You'll
> need to put in extra gs options like:
> -sModel='escp2-870' -sQuality='720 DPI High Quality' \
> -sInkType='Six Color Photo' -sMediaType='Plain Paper
>
> > Can you show how you modified /usr/lib/rhs/rhs-printerfilters/printerdb?
>
> It's just a text file, so you add in entries like:
>
> StartEntry: STP driver
> GSDriver: stp
> Description: {STP driver}
> About: { \
> STP driver.\
> }
> Resolution: {360} {360} {}
> Resolution: {720} {720} {}
> EndEntry
Rich perhaps you can check your entry, maybe you've made a slip somewhere?
> I can mail anyone the source rpms of my modified ghostscript-6.50 if they
> need it. Gimp-print includes instructions for using CUPS as well...
> You can also get rpms from
> http://space.tin.it/computer/livbe/linux/stp_driver/gs_stp.htm
>
> For the 680, you'll need at least gimp-print 4.1 (I used 4.0.4). I could
> put together a source rpm for this version...
So, Rich can check the versions he has, by
rpm -qi ghostscript
rpm -qi gimp-print
Mandrake 7.1 is somewhat more up to date than RH 6.1 (I found quite a few
nasty bugs in that and found 6.2 a more solid platform), so hopefully Rich
won't need to update those packages. The other possible timesaver is to
check whether Mandrake have made updated RPMs available.
From http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=517810 it looks
like it should work if he uses stp like you did and tells gimp-print that
it's an Epson Stylus Color 760 (if 680 and 777 aren't known to it). I was
going to buy this exact model, but the 'mostly' works and speculation on
equivalent US model numbering put me off in the end.
Rob
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