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[LUG] Epson printers on idle and Mozilla with CUPS

 

My printer (Epson Stylus Color[sic] 660) is used but twice a year. Once to 
print out my tax return and once to print out business cards before Expo.

This year, I printed the tax return in monochrome because the colour version 
was a PDF and they often print badly (especially as I can't print anything 
via any Mozilla app anyway). Despite numerous appeals from others elsewhere 
that PDF is *the* way to print, I find them poor because you aren't printing 
text but an image of text and the small print is completely unreadable.

When I came to print the business cards (OOo), the Debian swirl came out a 
blushing pink instead of a crimson red.
:-(

Can the (colour) cartridge on an Epson be changed BEFORE it runs out?
(The button that you use to change the cartridge is the same as to clean the 
print head. If the "empty" light isn't flashing, it doesn't stop to allow a 
change of cartridge. I suppose I'll just have to cut the power!)

Does anyone know how to get Mozilla to work with CUPS - it seems to only send 
Postscript which gets dumped as a text file of ps instructions. It offers no 
option to use CUPS.

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Neil Williams
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