Printing on Epson Printers

[Howard Coles Jr.]

What does Debian have against Epson Printers?

Every time I upgrade, or update my system I have to play for hours trying to 
get some epson printer driver to work with my Epson Stylus 740, or my Epson 
Stylus C80.

SUSE prints just fine, as does windoze.  However, when I plug the printer up 
to my Home PC (be-it either Debian sarge or sid, or KUBUNTU Breezy) I have to 
fight it for hours to get it to print! The standard Foomatic print drivers 
were working just fine, but then some bright person on the Debian team 
decided to switch gears, not once, but twice (first to the "gimp-print" 
drivers, then "gutten-print" (spelling?) drivers)!  and instead of leaving 
the foomatic support in for backward compatibility, they decided to take out 
all the foomatic drivers completely!  At one point I was able to copy the 
foomatic driver down from SUSE 9.3, and it worked, but now after updating via 
apt-get, I can't even make that work.

I'm sorry for the harsh tone, but it is 2:24 AM, and I've been fighting this 
since Midnight.  And I'd really appreciate someone's help.  I need this Epson 
Stylus Color 740 to print in 720 dpi sooner than later.

You may be thinking, it must be your machine.  However, this happens across 
three different hardware platforms, two Epson printers, and three versions of 
Debian, (Etch, Sid, and Kubuntu).


I need help, because I can't keep doing this, staying up till 2 am trying to 
get the Church bulletins printed.
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See Ya'
Howard Coles Jr.
John 3:16!

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