On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 14:19 +0100, Simon wrote:

http://www.linuxprinting.org/

That site sorted me out with which driver to choose when Ubuntu decided not to give me the Epson C46 driver in the list of printers - I'm using the same driver as the Epson C45 or something uses and it works perfectly, I'm very pleased!

That trick often works quite well, minor model changes are usually not much more than cosmetic.

Another tip (I forgot to mention earlier in this thread) is to look for a really good second hand unit. For example the HP Photosmart 1215 is one of the best consumer level inkjets HP ever made, yet people almost give them away because they think they get a better deal buying some flimsy thing at PC world that was the same price as refills for the solid and reliable HP.

A word to the wise, the carriage in that printer uses the same cartridges as some of their large format printers and therefore the cartridges are high capacity, relatively cheap and unlikely to become unavailable in the near future.

For multifunction the G85 is another good unit (although they are a little bulky) Uses the same print engine as the 1215 so the same applies.

Black ink is a 42ml cartridge and originals can be had for as little as £15, compare that to some of the newer units and their 17ml refills.

On Wednesday 28 September 2005 23:22, Wayne Stallwood wrote:

On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 09:30 +0100, Bob Dove wrote:

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I have to use Windoze for my PhotoShop installation.

Just for reference, my copy of Photoshop (version 6) works very well with wine, I have used it fairly frequently and it seems stable and perfectly functional (well you can only print to a file...but it's easy to nip back to a terminal and get the output to a printer so I don't care too much).

I had to mess with the config file a little, gimme a shout if you want me to post the config I used I think from memory it was as easy as telling wine to "be" a windows 2000 machine and setting up some stuff for printing (to file) to work.

Photoshop 7 works fine here too.

Initial consideration with photoshop is ensuring that you have truetype windows fonts available to wine.

If you've already installed these traditionally, or used kde's font manager, just add/uncomment your fonts folder to the wine config in the appropriate section.

Further, I'd update wine, because I remember that previous releases wouldn't run crucial photoshop features for me doing design work - most notably Save for Web (a small thing, but if not THE most commonly opened PS dialogue by web designers, it's up there).

That said, using winetools to install c runtimes, ms installer, ie and so on is fast, easy and makes a night/day difference to application compatibility - I'd call it a must for quickly/easily setting up wine to run serious applications.

Winetools: http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools/

You can also use winetools to install windows fonts, but the TTF package available online will leave you with inferior quality fonts to those included in, say, a stock install of windows XP Pro.

What you do in your own home with your paid-for media disc, if never distributed to or seen by anyone else - fair use - is nobody else's business, regardless of the onerous and sometimes (in my personal opinion, not ALUGs) legally questionable terms of any Microsoft HOOPLA.

As for other essential tools, I'm a few versions behind on my wine use of Flash and Director, because of what I can get to run acceptably, and there are certainly other fish to fry at the moment.

Fandango, Ten

PS: a download URL (I forget which) for some windows app in winetools was out of date and failed harmlessly, to be fixed in the next release according to the author. If that hasn't happened yet, I remember it was easily fixed by removing the subdomain prefix from the URL in question. I'll root it out if it's needed. :)

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