Hoary: printing with Epson Stylus Photo R200 a mess

[Keith Richie]

On 4/16/05, Ubu Roi <ravachol at home.nl> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> --------------------cut to save space--------------------------------
> 
> > > 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
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I never tried turbo print under Hoary. Doing a quick search, reveals
that you need GTK1.x libs installed.
$sudo apt-get install libgtk1.2 libgtk1.2-common
 
http://turboprint.de/manual/turboprint-9.html#ss9.1

 It should also be noted that my test pages looked just fine in Warty,
never tried a test page in Hoary. I compiled the newer Gimp Print
almost directly after the Hoary install, before I ever connected the
printer.

Gimp Print 5.0.0.b3 gives you better setting choices also. Uses draft,
photo, best photo..... instead of 720 720x720 1440x720 ..... most of
the higher end settings didn't work with any of my printers, though
the documentation states it's fully able to use those.