Re: I can't get my Epson 777 to work

[Michael Loßin <phallobst@xxxxxx>]

"Philip V. Neves" wrote:
> 
> I seem to be having trouble getting my Epson 777 to work with your
> apsfilter. It works when I send the codes to windows on another machine, but
> not in Linux  the OS I wish to use. Linux recognises the printer port and if
> I connect my old printer to the port it works fine. I can send plain text to
> the port directly and my old printer will print it out. However I can't even
> get this with the epson printer.  Not even the test page works with this
> printer. You have an option for the Epson 777 in the apsfilter so I assume
> that your software can support it.

Well, if the printer doesn't even react on the test page, there's little
we can do...

What happens if you create the test data manually and directly send it
to the interface?

	gs -sDEVICE=stp -sModel=escp2-777 -sOutputFile=dump setup/test.ps

	cat dump > /dev/lp0       (or whatever your device is)


Michael