Printing to an Epson C64

[Todd Maynard]

On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 22:15 +0100, Alistair Ross wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> First post to the list, so hello everyone!
> 
> I'm having problems with an Epson C64 printer -- it's not in the list of
> available printers in the Ubuntu Printer dialogue. As far as I can see,
> the Epson Stylus C64 is do-able under Debian, so does anyone have any
> idea how it can be installed on Ubuntu. I have trawled the net for
> a .PPD file (because it looked like the easiest option), but I can't
> find any such a thing.
> 
> Anyone else had similar problems? Any idea how to rectify?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Alistair Ross
> 
> 

Alistair,

First the disclaimer - I'm no Linux Printing Expert.

Try here for a PPD:

  http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Epson-Stylus_C64

It looks like it uses gimp-print.  Maybe you need to install
cupsys-driver-gimpprint to make it work with CUPS?

Anyways I hope this helps.

Todd Maynard