[juneau-lug] Re: USB up and going

  • From: Nels Tomlinson <nelstomlinson@xxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 07:23:00 -0800

Hi,

I just bought one of those C80's, and I'm using it on my Redhat 7.1 box. 
 The stock printing system didn't know what to do with it 
(grey-scale-only was a real disappointment), so I removed the rpms for 
it and installed cups and the gimp-print drivers.  Cups is nice.  Since 
I usually have Mozilla open anyway,  it's easy to monitor/manipulate the 
two printers I'm using.  

The C80 is a good color printer, but it isn't quite photo-quality.  We 
bought some photo paper, and started trying to print some photos.  The 
results weren't entirely satisfactory; not bad, but not quite as good as 
photos.  I'm not sure how much of that is a matter of blowing up a photo 
too darn big, and how much is the printer's fault.

If you would like to try printing one of your photos on my printer, 
reply to me and we can schedule a time for you to drop by.  My kernel 
has USB support (I've got the Epson hooked to the USB), so I think we'll 
be able to jam your card in the hole and move pictures about.  I'd be 
curious to see how a really high-resolution photo comes out.

Nels

  

Charles R. Hakari wrote:

>I gave up on getting gphoto2 working, so I bought a Lexar Smartmedia Reader 
>from Freddie's and configured my kernel for USB. I had a few false starts, 
>but finally got things working correctly. It's very nice having a hotplug USB 
>card reader.....so much faster than downloading the images using the supplied 
>serial cable for my Olympus D-360L! Now all I need is a good photo quality 
>printer. I am thinking about getting the Epson C80 that Costo has in stock. 
>Anyone had experience with this printer? Speaking of printers, James, if you 
>have that hp printer with the JetDirect card still around, I will take it off 
>your hands.
>
>Chuck Hakari
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