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Epson Stylus C66
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3 18950 02-26-2005
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100% of reviewers $100.00 9.0



Description: I picked up an Epson Stylus C66 today for $55 and it works beautifully with Fedora Core 2 and the gimp-print drivers.
With the USB interface FC2 picked it up immediately on reboot and it is working great. The C66 isn't listed in the gimp-print driver list but the C64 driver works just perfectly.
Using the printer settings tool under Gnome, I've successfully adjusted the output quality from 360dpi draft to 2880x1440dpi high res photo quality.
I've spent half the day printing everything from low res draft text docs in openoffice to high res photos in gimp and everything in between and the printer works great.
Keywords: Epson Stylus C66
Connection Type: USB


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Old 10-26-2004, 04:08 PM   #1
davholla
 
Registered: Jun 2003
Distribution: Mandriva 2008 Spring
Posts: 649

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $100.00 | Rating: 8

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.4-52-default
Distribution: Suse 9.1



It works well with Linux but it is not that a good a printer.
Although I have only done black and white so far
Putting paper in it is a bit of a pain and so I don't know if I would recommend for that reason.

Actually DO NOT buy it broke after 7 weeks I have not even finished printing it.
 
Old 02-01-2005, 04:37 AM   #2
 
Registered: Dec 1969
Posts: 0

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.11
Distribution: Mandrake Cooker


Go to

http://www.epkowa.co.jp/english/linux_e/dl_ink.html

There you find for EVERY EPSON PRINTER the necessary file as well for cups than for lpr (for free of course)

Serge
 
Old 02-26-2005, 07:21 AM   #3
yellowtrolley
 
Registered: Jun 2004
Distribution: debian. Knoppix hd install
Posts: 4

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 0

Kernel (uname -r):
Distribution: debian


It seems to work fine with the C64 driver.
Using "alien" and "dpkg" I installed the C66 driver from http://www.epkowa.co.jp/english/linux_e/dl_ink.html to check if it is any better but the printer doesn't work with that one.

Is it because I use debian? Any chance of having the driver updated?

Cheers
 




  



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