On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 12:51 -0600, fachamix wrote: > I have serious problems with printters in linux ... really serious. > I have been searching teh drivers for the epson`s FX series, and nothing. > This information may be useful, so here goes. It applies only to Epsons that use the Esc/P control codes. I've tried this with MX, FX, LQ and Stylus colour printers: specifically I've owned an MX/80 (9 pin dot matrix) and still have an LQ550 (24 pin dot matrix) and a Stylus 850C (colour inkjet) printer. The Esc/P control codes were introduced with the MX/80 and the codes for each successive printer have been supersets of the MX/80 control codes. In short, every Epson Esc/P printer I've tried has worked perfectly using MX/80 drivers. In general each printer series seem to use similar codes within reason - you wouldn't expect a b/w inkjet to do sensible things with the colour selection codes that a colour Stylus accepts, but if CUPS doesn't have a driver for your exact printer, using the driver for a close relative in the Epson range seems to work (IIRC the Stylus 850C wasn't supported, but pretending it was a 650C worked just fine). The same goes for any HP printers that accept PCL control sequences. I have an LJ5 that works perfectly with a driver originally set up for an LJ2 over 20 years ago. Martin
