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Anyone tried this with 1520?
I know this hint has only just gone up but has anyone tried doing this with a 1520?
Anyone tried this with 1520?
If your 1520 has a parallel port, you can get Epson's USB/Parallel cable (C-USB PK4) which may be a whole lot cheaper than getting an enet card. I had a Keyspan cable connecting my SC600 to my iBook and while it offered me a solution for OS 9, this cable was not good for CUPS printing; Print Center would not recognize the printer. Replacing the Keyspan cable with an Epson original solved the problem and can now use my old sc600 with the iBook.
1520 success
My 1520 runs quite nicely with the drivers from Gimp-print. Alas, it does not work directly from Adobe apps like Illustrator or Photoshop, you have to go through a two-step process of printing to pdf, then opening in Preview.app to print. The gimp-print project says they're working on this problem. For now, I can print quite nicely from apps like Mozilla, although I noticed a few bugs like transparent gifs aren't transparent (hard to tell if this is a Moz bug or gimp-print). I couldn't get the 1440 mode to run well, it had excessively dark output, so dark it soaked through the paper, but 720 works pretty well.
1520 success
Oh.. I suppose I should mention.. Like Frank suggested, I'm using the Epson USB cable, it plugs into the 1520's parallel port. The 1520 must be on and ready when you boot your Mac, or CUPS will not recognize it. |
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