Epson Stylus Color 900

[Till Kamppeter]

The most important what you need is GhostScript and a driver (in your 
case GIMP-Print, http://gimp-print.sf.net/), these two translate the 
incoming PostScript to the printer's language. As spooler CUPS is the 
one which integrates best with KDE Print, but LPD/LPRng is also 
supported but you should use Foomatic then (in contrary to apsfilter 
Foomatic is directly supported by the KDE Printing Manager).

Foomatic you find on www.linuxprinting.org.

To get GhostScript and GIMP-Print running, proceed as follows (if your 
distro does not provide packages for GhostScript and GIMP-Print 4.2.x):

The best is to use ESP GhostScript, as it contains all current drivers 
and the IJS plug-in interface. Download it from 
http://www.cups.org/ghostscript.html (works with all spoolers not only 
with CUPS). Do

    gs -h > info.txt

with your old ghostscript. info.txt contains now the search for the 
fonts in its end. Uninstall GhostScript and any old GIMP-Print 4.0.x 
package. Uncompress ESP GhostScript and install the IJS library 
contained in the "ijs" subdirectory of GhostScript.

Then compile and install GIMP-Print:

    ./configure --without-gimp --with-ijs
    make
    make install

Compile GhostScript using the font paths which you have saved in the 
info.txt file:

    ./configure --with-ijs --with-fontpath=<path>:<path>:... 
--with-drivers=ALL,stp
    make
    make install

Go to linuxprinting.org, look up your printer, download the config file 
according to your spooler and follow the instructions for your spooler. 
You can also install the Foomatic package, from 
http://www.linuxprinting.org/foomatic.html and then you can set up your 
print queue easily with the KDE Printing Manager.

    Till


C. K. Lester wrote:
> Do I need to install apsfilter or CUPS or some similar program for Konqueror 
> (or any KDE app) to print to my non-postscript Epson Stylus Color 900? As of 
> right now, both Kate and Konqueror (the only ones I've tried) print 
> Postscript code. Text files from a shell print just fine.