{"id":366,"date":"2005-03-01T11:38:50","date_gmt":"2005-03-01T01:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=366"},"modified":"2005-03-01T11:38:50","modified_gmt":"2005-03-01T01:38:50","slug":"epson-c65-on-ubuntu-linux-and-debian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/01\/epson-c65-on-ubuntu-linux-and-debian\/","title":{"rendered":"Epson C65 on Ubuntu Linux (and Debian)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quite easy to get going under Warty (as well as Debian Sid).<\/p>\n

Add a printer (System Configuration -> Printers, double click ‘Add Printer’). Select Local Printer, “USB Printer #1” as the port, then, select the model as Epson Stylus C64. Works fine.<\/p>\n

I guess you can fiddle with quality settings and everything – but I haven’t yet.<\/p>\n

This is the printer that was bought for mum – and it’s working fine for her.<\/p>\n

now…. only to find a printer for me….<\/p>\n

i print rarely, but when I do, i want it to work. Inkjets have not worked well for me in the past in this regard (spending 10 minutes running head cleaning and replacing cartridges because they’ve half dried up is not fun).<\/p>\n

I’m thinking laser. Konica Minolta seems to have a 2430DL colour laser with network and GPL Linux drivers for $499USD (about $800AUD i think… finding prices today). You have to love<\/b> it when they have a tux on their site :)<\/p>\n

A duplexer would be nice too – i like having double sided print outs (yay – the greenie hippy in me is working hard).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quite easy to get going under Warty (as well as Debian Sid). Add a printer (System Configuration -> Printers, double click ‘Add Printer’). Select Local Printer, “USB Printer #1” as the port, then, select the model as Epson Stylus C64. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-5U","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":116,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/24\/towards-stews-kernel-2421-ac2-stew1\/","url_meta":{"origin":366,"position":0},"title":"toward’s stew’s kernel 2.4.21-ac2-stew1","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2003-06-24","format":false,"excerpt":"well, spank my arse and call me charlie - stoopid me had not enabled 1284 modes for parallel port. this is probably why my newly acquired laserjet printer doesn't work via parallel (but fine, albeit slowly, via serial). -ac2 should correct some problems tim was having with the tulip and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "linux-kernel"","block_context":{"text":"linux-kernel","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/linux-kernel\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":687,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/04\/interesting-ssl-with-australian-system-administrators-conference-2006\/","url_meta":{"origin":366,"position":1},"title":"Interesting SSL with Australian System Administrator’s Conference 2006","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2006-05-04","format":false,"excerpt":"The Australian System Administrator's Conference 2006 It's interesting that the online registration doesn't have an SSL certificate that matches. 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