please help me set up epson stylus color 900 on freebsd 7
ix2...@yahoo.de
first of all i hope i'm posting in the correct group.
three days ago i decided to hook up my epson stylus color 900 printer
on my freebsd machine.
so i've connected it to the printer port using classic centronics
cable and followed the steps
until Advanced Printer Setup from the official freebsd documentation
(handbook, section printig).
we are talking about a parallel printer now and the Simple Printer
Setup works excellent.
$ echo "Hello EPSON Stylus Color 900! :-)" | lpr
works ^^ but the output quality is not nice. the document gets printed
with with low resolution and 360dpi, i think
now i only need a better printing resolution (higher resolution: high
or photo, 720 dpi)
do i necessarily need cups for this? ^^
i don't think so, because the spooling works perfect.
i think apsfilter can handle this, but my printer seems not to be
supported?
# cd /usr/local/share/apsfilter
# ./SETUP
Found ghostscript version 8.63 ...
You have to upgrade at least to gs version 6.50!
But you should upgrade to gs 7.00 for full driver support
prior installing printers with SETUP.
Do you you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
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s <RETURN> to continue
1 - Epson AcuLaser C2000 [alc2000]
2 - Epson AcuLaser C8500 [alc8500]
3 - Epson Laser EPL-N2050 [epl2050]
4 - Epson Laser EPL-N2050+ [epl2050p]
5 - Epson Laser EPL-N5800 [epl5800]
6 - Epson Stylus Color 20 series {png+pips} [pips/sc20s]
7 - Epson Stylus Color 40 series {png+pips} [pips/sc40s]
8 - Epson Stylus Color 60 series {png+pips} [pips/sc60s]
9 - Epson Stylus Color 70 series {png+pips} [pips/sc70s]
10 - Epson Stylus Color 80 series {png+pips} [pips/sc80s]
11 - Epson Stylus Color 480 {png+pips} [pips/sc480]
12 - Epson Stylus Color 580 {png+pips} [pips/sc580]
13 - Epson Stylus Color 680 {png+pips} [pips/sc680_777]
14 - Epson Stylus Color 777 {png+pips} [pips/sc680_777]
15 - Epson Stylus Color 880 {png+pips} [pips/sc880]
16 - Epson Stylus Color 980 {png+pips} [pips/sc980]
17 - Epson Stylus Photo 810 {png+pips} [pips/sp810_820]
18 - Epson Stylus Photo 820 {png+pips} [pips/sp810_820]
Which driver do you want to choose?
[Hit RETURN to see the list again, enter 0 to choose new type.]
Enter number:
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A P S F I L T E R S E T U P -- MAIN MENUE --
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(D) Available Device Drivers in your gs binary
(R) Read Ghostscript driver documentation (devices.txt)
(1) Printer Driver Selection []
(2) Interface Setup [parallel]
(3) Paper Format [a4]
(4) Printing Quality [photo]
(5) Color Mode [gray]
(6) Print Resolution in "dots per inch" [720x720]
(7) Default Printing Method [auto]
(A) Abort installation (don't do anything)
(Q) ==> Finish installation
Your choice?
# lpr -P lp -C high testprint
this configuration won't work and the "-C high" parameter shows no
effect.
$ cat /etc/printcap
# This file was automatically generated by cupsd(8) from the
# /usr/local/etc/cups/printers.conf file. All changes to this file
# will be lost.
lp|line|wildfire|my epson:\
:sh:sd=/var/spool/epson:\
:lp=/dev/lpt0:\
$
is there any other way to get this problem solved?
hope i will find some qualified help/inspiration here.
kind regards