[xubuntu-users] Colour Printing

[Richard Anderson]

Epson has many linux drivers that work. Go to epson site and drivers and choose linux

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> On Oct 9, 2014, at 3:30 PM, Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote:
> 
>> On 10/09/2014 01:22 PM, David Walland wrote:
>> I have set up my Xubuntu system to print on our venerable Epson Stylus
>> Photo 1290 machine.  When I tried to use it most of the controls (which I
>> use very frequently) simply were not there.  
> 
> This does not surprise me, I'm sorry to say. As I just alluded to this
> in another post on an unrelated print topic, CUPS is very poor at
> replicating the capabilities of a printer in its menus, and also appears
> only marginally capable of modifying the settings for an individual
> print job, if they vary from the defaults set in the queue settings for
> a given printer.
> 
> Things that work, at least IMHE:
> 
> a. changing print quality (from FastDraft right up to HiResPhoto)
> 
> b. switching from Color to Monochrome and back
> 
> c. one-sided and two-sided (if printer can do that)
> 
> d. switching between Portrait and Landscape
> 
> Things that have never worked:
> 
> 1. changing paper size upwards, even when the printer is capable of it
> 
> 2. printing correctly with the "shrink-to-fit" option turned OFF
>   (eg when you have an accurately-constructed A4 PDF to print on
>   A4 paper with bleeding to the edge [which my printer can do],
>   it insists on sticking in a bogus LH and top margin, and enlarging
>   the image by about 8%)
> 
> Adobe Acrobat does have one good feature, however: after going through
> the fine detail in the printer options, it echoes in a textbox the
> actual command line it intends using. I often copy this and paste it
> into a file, edit it, and then use it to print from the command line
> with lpr. Crazy, but better control than anything else.
> 
> ///Peter
> 
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