Printing on Epson Printers

[Art Alexion]

Howard Coles Jr. wrote:

>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.
>  
>
I'm finding foomatic in the standard repositories.  I can print to a
samba mounted 740.

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