For Sale: New Epson Stylus Photo R300M printer

Jon maddog Hall maddog at li.org
Mon Aug 16 11:47:01 EDT 2004


Hi,

Right after Christmas we had a big discussion about printers, and about that time
my loyal, six-year old Cannon gave out on me.

I decided to buy an Epson Photo printer because:

o it could print to printable CDs and DVDs
o it seemed to be supported by Linux
o it had the capability of printing off picture CDs filled with photos even
  when not attached to a computer.  You simply plug in a USB-based CD drive
  to the printer
o it could print directly from a wide range of memory cards, including the
  new xD ones that fit in my Olympus
o it had a little monitor that allowed you to crop, chose pictures, etc.

http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/consumer/consDetail.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&oid=37472318o 

http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/support/supDetail.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&oid=26323&infoType=Overview

I was ordering it right after Christmas so all of the local stores were out,
PC Connection was out of stock, etc.  So I ordered it from CDW, who told me
that it was in stock.  Wrong.  Then they told me that it would be in "soon".
I waited two weeks, had to go on a trip.  "It will be in when you get back".
Two weeks later, nada.  So I canceled the order.

I went down to CompUSA and bought one, hooked it up and it worked great.  I
even have it working through a D-LINK wireless printserver so I can access it
from any place in my house with my notebook.  No wires.  Cool.

Then a week later the CDW unit shows up.  I call them up, give them heck,
and get an NRA sent to me.  I go on another trip.  When I get back I find out
that the NRA has expired, and I would have to get another one.  I give up.

So now I have this  Epson Stylus Photo R300M printer, still in its unopened
box, in my garage.  I look on the Epson site and they have it marked at
$229., which is what I paid.  I will let it go for $175., but you have to come
pick it up.  I live in Amherst, NH.

Right out of the box it works great with SuSE 9.1, although you have to tell
CUPS that it is a 915 for some reason, but that is mentioned in the CUPS
documentation.  With standard settings it prints a little light from Linux, but
I like that since it saves ink.  I assume that by playing with the CUPs settings
that you can get it to print darker.  Printing from the memory cards with
glossy paper, the pictures are just stellar.

I might add that I have had no problems with the ink stopping up even though I
only print about two or three pages at a time and I am often gone for a week or
two between print sessions.

md
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