Hoary: printing with Epson Stylus Photo R200 a mess

[Ubu Roi]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 12:20:03PM -0400, Keith Richie 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.

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> > Anybody else using an Epson Stylus Photo R200/R300 under Hoary.
> > What are your experiences.
 
> I have several of these printers. But I too never had any luck with
> the default Gimp Print driver installed with Hoary.

The gimp-print-2.4.7 driver is certainly not optimal however I
have never had problems printing "test pages" under FC3.

Under Hoary the "test page" is completely botched (whatever printer
configuration you choose). So it might be the Hoary/Debian
implementation that is causing this (and the other problems when
printing photos).

> 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 might look into the gimp-print-5.0.0.b3 version if I have the time and
inclination.
I just downloaded and tried the 'trial' TurboPrint driver.
It installs but does not work under Hoary: missing (older) libs!
Did you get it working under Hoary?

Ubu