Hoary: printing with Epson Stylus Photo R200 a mess

[brian Beck]

I paid for turbo print two or three years ago, and so far all of their
updates have been free,  so I have also gotten my moneys worth.
when they release version 2 (which I understand might be a upgrade
fee) I'll buy it then to, they have an excellent product.

Brian

On 4/15/05, Keith Richie <disturbed1976 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/15/05, Ubu Roi <ravachol at home.nl> wrote:
> > >From previous experience under Fedora Core 3 with the gimp-print-2.4.7
> > drivers I know that they are not optimal: printing photo's on A4 always
> > produces a thin white stripe on the left and it is difficult to
> > remove borders on top and bottom so the whole A4 page is covered.
> >
> > However something seems to be wrong under Hoary.
> >
> > Firstly I tried printing the test page:
> >  The 1st attempt produced a page with lined borders, the word 'ubuntu'
> >  in large letters on top next to the symbol in red/orange and then 8
> >  'color bars' with color graduations and text like 'Grayscale', etc
> >  on the left. But there were all kinds of 'stripes' and some of the
> >  bars were incomplete and the colors 'faded' toward the bottom.
> >  The 2nd attempt gave a page with the dark gray stripes from the
> >  word 'ubuntu' missing, no lines at the borders and no text to the
> >  left of the color bars.
> >  The 3d attempt produced a page without the word 'ubuntu', no
> >  border lines, no text to the left of the color bars and further
> >  aberrations in the color bars themselves.
> >
> > Secondly I tried printing a photo on plain paper (A4).
> > The result was bad. Faded colors on the left halve, normal colors
> > on the right side. And 'splotchy'.
> > Comparable results on a second try.
> >
> > This never happened with the gimp-print-2.4.7 drivers under FC3.
> >
> > Anybody else using an Epson Stylus Photo R200/R300 under Hoary.
> > What are your experiences.
> >
> > Ubu
> >
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> 
> I have several of these printers. But I too never had any luck with
> the default Gimp Print driver installed with Hoary.
> 
> There's basically 2 great choices, compile a newer Gimp Print
> 5.0.0.b3, or use the non-free Turbo Print driver.
> 
> Gimp Print 5.0.0.b3 works great, and fully supports printing on CD/DVD media.
> 
> I also had horrible results with the default gimp print driver for an
> Epson Photo 825, and Photo 960. But once I upgraded these machines to
> the newer Gimp Print results were also great.
> 
> There is still a bug (?) in the new Gimp Print drivers, in that,
> borderless printing still isn't borderless.
> 
> The Turbo Print driver offers wonderfull quality, 99% of the features
> are supported, and easy installation, but it's non-free, you need to
> pay for it.
> 
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