I have a question it just came up to me. I dont have my PC available to try this , thats why i post it. I have serious problems with printters in linux ... really serious. I have been searching teh drivers for the epson`s FX series, and nothing. So I would like to ask you people, ..... if I install a WINDOWS driver in wine, would this printer work for wine programs ???? waitting for asnwers .... thanks
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
fachamix wrote:> > So I would like to ask you people, ..... if I install a WINDOWS driver in wine, would this printer work for wine programs ???? >No. Windows hardware drivers will not work in Wine.
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. >The Epson FX series were 9-pin dot matrix printers, so configure a CUPS printer using the Epson 9-pin driver. Don't forget to enable "Publish shared printers connected to this system" so WINE can see your CUPS server. Martin
thanks a lot to everybody for the replies.> On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 12:51 -0600, fachamix wrote: > Quote: > I have serious problems with printters in linux ... really serious. > I have been searching teh drivers for the epson`s FX series, and nothing. > > The Epson FX series were 9-pin dot matrix printers, so configure a CUPS > printer using the Epson 9-pin driver. > > Don't forget to enable "Publish shared printers connected to this > system" so WINE can see your CUPS server. > > > MartinI did it, I tried those dirvers, but they suck with the FX series. the printting is slow (2 or 3 passes per line), and the quality is really crappy I also tried the generic dot matrix printer, also the same problem. I tried the generic TEXT ONLY driver provided in Ubuntu 9.04, and works perfectly ... but!!!!!!, It does not allow me to use CUSTOM PAGE SIZE!!!! and I need this feature! I will try the LQ drivers and the MX drivers also thanks a lot. have anyone use DDIWRAPPER ,..... it suppouse to wrap printer drivers of windows to use them in linux.