Re: [LUG] Epson printers on idle and Mozilla with CUPS

[paul sutton <zen14920@xxxxxxxxx>]

I got an epson 680 and not used for a while, so changed the ink even 
though it said it was 1/2 empty, not really a problem.

Also don't seem to have a problem with Mozilla / cups and printing

I got a nice new brother printer now, also works, now it's set up via 
the network, fine in both Windows and Kanotix

Paul


Neil Williams wrote:

> 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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