Epson Stylus Photo 810 with FreeBSD

[Gerrit Kühn <gerrit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I've got some problems getting the subject working. The printer is
connected via ulpt0 and seems to work in priciple, i.e. I can cat ascii-
files onto the device and they get printed.
Using SETUP for apsfilter (v 7.2.2 here, gs is at version 7.04) I tried 
the stp/Gimp-print driver as well as the driver from Epson. Both
produce gibberish as printout. So I stepped back from the driver
specifically for the 810 and I'm trying the one that is for Stylus Photo
(some kind of generic thing?). This one seems to work, although it takes
literally hours to print something. The testpage I created was ca. 1MB 
size and it takes about 5 minutes to print a single line... I don't
expect this to have finished until tomorrow morning.

Are there any hints how to solve this situation? I don't understand
why I get just binary gibberish when I'm choosing the driver that is
meant to work with my printer and I also don't understand why the
generic driver is working that horribly slow.

BTW: I had a minor problem installing the apsfilter-port: it complained
about a not-working ln-command. I had to edit the makefile to use
-sf instead of -sfn as options for ln (FreeBSD doesn't know the -n option,
I don't know what it would mean e.g. under Linux).


cu
  Gerrit
 

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