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Re: [LUG] OT: Epson Printer

 

David Bell wrote:
> On Thursday 02 October 2008 00:23:28 Julian Hall wrote:
>> David Bell wrote:
>>> Does anyone out there use an Epson Stylus Photo R200 printer?
> 
>> Yes I do.  What's the problem?
> 
> Thanks Julian and Rob for the replies.  Last month I built a replacement PC 
> for an old friend whose Win XP machine was "past it's best".  In doing so I 
> persuaded him to dual boot GNU/Linux on it.  Win XP is retained for colour 
> photography/printing only, whilst all office, web and e-mail is performed 
> using PCLinuxOS.  He is very happy with this arrangement.  
> 
> Unfortunately he lives 340 miles away and I couldn't spend enough time either 
> to convert him over to Linux completely or find a compatible version of 
> escutil, that will have to wait until the next visit.  The XP drivers disk 
> for the (second hand) printer is missing and the ones that I downloaded don't 
> seem to provide the full maintenance facilities.
> 
> May I ask if either of you could kindly let me have a copy of the Epson disk.  
> I'm happy to pay for cost and postage. 
> 
> Thanks
> David
> 

You can actually download the drivers from Epson's web site which 
includes the status monitor.  If this doesn't do the job let me know and 
I'll try and dig out the CD (I know it's somewhere in the house :-)

Rob


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