[ale] Epson printer experience questions

[Dow Hurst]

Dow Hurst writes:
I have been using EasySoftware's printing package, (www.easysw.com),
with great success on our SGIs.  It is compatible with most current
inkjets and color laserjets.  I noticed that they are Linux compatible
now.  The quality of our printing is really good.  EasySoftware has an
agreement with Epson so that they get the info they need to create the
drivers ASAP.  You might contact them for info.  They were originally
based around ghostscript but have created some new printing system
called CUPS, (www.cups.org), that is supposedly transparent between
all OSes it's ported to.

John Mills wrote:
> 
> Hello -
> 
> The Epson 'Stylus Color 660' is phenominally cheap just now ($129.95 at
> Office Depot, and $30 rebate available - cheaper than their in-store ad, in
> fact), and I wondered if anyone could share experience comparing this
> printer with others as far as resolution, color quality and saturation, and
> other factors. I would be using it in Linux under gs-5.10 or later. I have
> been battling a Canon BJC-620 for a couple of years with occasionally decent
> - but very unpredictable - results, and with very unfaithful color mapping.
> (Even the color bars on RedHat's PostScript test page come out wierd.)
> 
> Does the Epson 740 work [well] with any gs driver? It's not among the
> "supported", but there are references in 'uniprint' to "ESC/P2" printers,
> and Epson identifies this as the "printer language" of the 740.
> 
> Can these printers reach their advertised dot pitches (1440x720) under gs?