On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Bill Studenmund wrote:

>Has anyone had experience with any of these? At the minimum I want to be
>able to use it as a printer. Scanning would be good, as would sending
>faxes.
>
>I'm looking at a Lexmark X63, HP v40, or Brother 3100 or 7300. Anyone
>using them?

I seem to have a problem with USB to an Epson Stylus Photo 750.
I bought this printer nearly 18 months ago, but due to circumstances
beyond my control I've only recently tried getting it working under
NetBSD 1.5.2 (using Gimp-print).

I wanted to use the gimp-print escputil to check head-alignment and
monitor ink levels, but this needs a bi-directional connection, and
the NetBSD lpt driver can't do that.  So I thought I'd try a USB cable
(before I realised that the NetBSD ulpt driver doesn't do bidirectional
either).  Worse than that, printing a test pattern (which works with
the unidirectional centronics interface) results in garbage when using
a USB connection.  Haven't had time to investigate further, but will
send-pr shortly.

Anyone else got this particular printer working over a USB connection?

Didn't two different people say they were working on adding
bidirectional support to lpt and ulpt?  The printer works fine over a
centronics connection, but without bidirectional support I'm going to
have to use Linux (or worse) to check ink levels and perform head
alignment.


Roger

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