[oclug] Epson Photo R800

Michael Bazdell flying-camel at rogers.com
Thu Jan 29 15:40:05 EST 2004


Heh... I just finished fighting with my system to get the printers
working on my network. But this was a Linux box to the rest of it. Now
I'm not sure if Windows can take raw info and then do the job so I'm not
sure it will work for you. Though I may be wrong. You may need the
driver... Best to wait for one of the gurus here to spit up an
answer....

On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 10:45, Bruce Harding wrote:
> I'm looking at buy a Epson Stylus Photo R800 Photo printer and it is not
> presently supported under Linux.  I've checked Cups and Gimp-Print
> projects and they are working on support for it, but it is a far bit
> away.
> 
> So my question is, can I set this printer up on my network and have it
> run off a Win XP box.  Where the Win XP box and Windows drivers do the
> print processing, thus presently by passing the need for Linux
> drivers.????
-- 
Michael William Bazdell <michael at bazdell.com>
Gbit Consultants
http://www.bazdell.com
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