[Herefordshire] printer driver from disk

[Julian Robbins]

Hi Graham

If its an Epson Printer it will probably work quite well ;-) Epson and 
HP support Linux better within printing than anyone else. I have an 
Epson Color 680 and printing in Linux has always been great.

Julian

Mark Broadbent wrote:
> Hi Graham,
> 
> On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 11:49 +0000, Graham Cole wrote:
> 
>>Hi all
>>I have a problem with the printer driver which came in my Ubuntu distro
>>and want to try another driver from an Epson supplied disk. I can see
>>lots of files on the latter with foot icons, for Linux presumably, but I
>>don't know how to make use of them. I guess startman.exe or epsetup.exe
>>might be useful....if so what should I do?
> 
> 
> I doubt that any of the files on the CD are of any use for Linux, I
> believe the foot icon is just a 'this is a generic unknown file'.  The
> only useful file would be a .ppd file.  This is a O/S independent
> printer definition file that can be used with CUPS to drive a printer.
> 
> Anyhow if your having problems with the driver in Ubuntu try
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/ and find out how well your printer is
> currently supported.
> 
> Thanks
> Mark
>