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<H4>By James T. Dennis,
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>Printing Trouble in Linux</H3>
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<p><strong>From Gaurav on Fri, 8 Sep 2000
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<p align="right">Answered by: Ben Okopnik</p>
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<P><STRONG>
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On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 12:01:38AM +0530, root wrote:
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<BLOCKQUOTE><IMG SRC="../../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" ALT="(!)"
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HEIGHT="28" WIDTH="50" BORDER="0"
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>
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Might want to check out your mail setup as well... See my
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article on setting up Sendmail under Redhat this coming
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month (if Mike doesn't shoot it on sight, that is.
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<P><STRONG><IMG SRC="../../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" ALT="(?)"
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HEIGHT="28" WIDTH="50" BORDER="0"
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I have been trying to get my EPSON Stylus COLOR IIs (TRIGEM) printer
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working on redhat 6.1 for about three months on and off,
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"UNSUCCESSFULLY" of course.
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<P><STRONG>
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The problem is that i want to print using black ink-cartrege,
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as most of my printing is black documents.
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I have tried various Ghostscript devices, uniprint drivers
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read the docs over and over again, posted on the net....and
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done many unmentionable things but to no avail.
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The unmentionable things are probably the ones worth mentioning,
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just to avoid repetition.
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The closest i have come to getting some sane output is
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with the following GS options
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<Pre><STRONG>
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gs -sDEVICE=stcolor -r360x360 -dnoWeave -descp_Band=1 -sOutputFile=\|lpr fileName.ps
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<P><STRONG>
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and
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<Pre><STRONG>
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gs -sDEVICE=stcolor -sModel=st800 -sOutputFile=\|lpr fileName.ps
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<P><STRONG>
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they both give me ouptut that is elongated in length and the verticals
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lines are mis-aligned.
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<P><STRONG>
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Please Please Please Please Please help me out herex
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cause it is a real bother booting into windows again and again
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just to get printouts.. and i cant buy a new printer just yet.
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<P><STRONG>
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Gaurav
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I have an Epson Stylus 720, myself (can't see where it would be very
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different). Try installing "<tt>magicfilter</tt>" and modifying the "gs" lines
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in "<TT>/etc/magicfilter/stylus_color_720_filter</TT>" as follows:
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<BLOCKQUOTE><pre>
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/usr/bin/gs -sDEVICE=stcolor -r720 -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dSpotSize='{2.6 2.4 2.6 2}' -sOutputFile=- -
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</pre></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<EM>Remove</EM> the resolution ("<tt>-rXXX</tt>") switch.
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That one took a while of experimenting to find (with it in place,
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"<tt>magicfilter</tt>" <EM>swallowed</EM> the output without a trace), but it works
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fine. I haven't tried <em>just</em> a black cartridge, but if it works
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with Windows, it should work with Linux.
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By the way - as far as I know, the horizontal and the vertical
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resolution on my printer (and probably on yours) are not the
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same; I believe the numbers are something like 360x720. This
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is probably the reason for the "elongation" problem.
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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Ben Okopnik
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<BR>Published in the <I>Linux Gazette</I> Issue 58 October 2000</H5>
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