[Herefordshire] printer driver from disk

[Julian Robbins]

Hi Graham

I cant offer much help, but all I can say is that I have a Epson stylus 
680, which as always worked fine as the same as two other printers I 
tried under Ubuntu.

The Ubuntu forums and mailing lists are very very good though so you may 
like to try there if no-one can help you out here.

Julian

Graham Cole wrote:
> Hi Julian & others
> My printer is an Epson Stylus Color 660 and it worked well enough with
> Red Hat 9 but with Ubuntu, using the recommended driver which was there
> with the distro ready to be chosen, the printing is very pale. When I do
> a test using the printer's buttons the outcome is properly black and 3
> colours. A test page from my OS gives pale results. When I was thrashing
> around with things I got a partial crash and printing went wrong, giving
> pages of text which I  assume was raw postscript. It came out properly
> black.
> Now after fsck I am back to square 1 but found a foomatic conf file
> which was completely commented out with # on all lines. Should this
> really be left as I found it or is there some foomatic or cups tweaking
> which Ubuntu has failed to guide me to (or do for me automatically)?
> I did check out linuxprinters.org where I learnt that gimpprint can give
> better results than normal print drivers. Trying to set that up I got
> the crash which stopped my Open Office and mucked up my printing
> altogether. 
> Grateful for any hints
> Graham
> 
> 
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