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Epson Epson Stylus Photo R300
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6 39638 08-22-2011
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100% of reviewers $244.00 8.4



Description: This is a photo quality printer produced by Epson that utilises 6 colour technology to achieve photo quality printing.

It also comes with 5 built in memory card readers supportting CompactFlash, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Duo, MultiMediaCard, SmartMedia, XD-Picture Card, MagicGate Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO, Microdrive, SD Card and miniSD cards

Printing is supported either direct from the memory card or via a PC. The memory cards can be accessed from the PC as USB storage devices.
Keywords: printer six colour print xd sd smartmedia compactflash memory usb
Connection Type: USB


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Old 03-07-2004, 02:26 PM   #1
david_ross
 
Registered: Mar 2003
Distribution: Slackware, RedHat, Debian
Posts: 12,047

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $238.00 | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.3-rossy
Distribution: Slackware 9.1



I had problems originally when using CUPS+Gimp-Print v4.2.5 but after upgrading to CUPS+Gimp-Print v5.0.0-alpha1 everything seems fine.

Also be careful that you compile the correct modules for usb mass storage if you want to use the built in card reader.
 
Old 04-04-2004, 01:33 PM   #2
KePSuX
 
Registered: Nov 2002
Distribution: Gentoo
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.4
Distribution: Gentoo


I have installed gimp-print 5.0.0-alpha1 and CUPS. I cannot get this printer to function. Any chance of a more detailed walk-through? I'm positive this is user error, as I have not had any experience setting up CUPS with gimp-print in the past. When I print a test page in CUPS I am getting this error :

Code:
"Unable to open USB device "usb://EPSON/Stylus%20Photo%20R300": No such device"
Device URI: usb://EPSON/Stylus%20Photo%20R300
but I know there is not a physical problem as I can get the memory card readers in the printer to mount properly.
 
Old 04-24-2005, 07:44 AM   #3
munkie_poo
 
Registered: Apr 2004
Distribution: Slackware 10.2
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.10
Distribution: slackware 10.1


Works fine with guten-print 5 beta 3 drivers and cups, havent tried printing to CD yet, but the driver looks like it supports it.

Havent managed to get the card reader mountable yet.
 
Old 04-22-2006, 05:22 PM   #4
r0jaws
 
Registered: Feb 2005
Distribution: Ubuntu
Posts: 40

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 8

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.10
Distribution: Ubuntu Breezy & Linspire 5.0


Everything seems to work fine out of the box, including the memory card reader, which automatically detects and mounts any card inserted.
Print quality is excellent, much stronger and crisper than via XP.
It won't print directly to CD using the standard Gimp-Print drivers though, It looks like an upgrade to the GutenPrint drivers has addressed this issue allthough I haven't personally tried this myself yet.
 
Old 04-04-2009, 04:18 PM   #5
Parent5446
 
Registered: Feb 2009
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.27-11-generic
Distribution: Linux Mint


Good printer, worked almost instantly using CUPS. Running into some problems with sharing the printer to other Linux computers (have not tried sharing to Windows yet), but I believe that is more of a configuration problem that a printer problem. Unfortunately, I cannot get memory cards mounted, though you can still use the printer's direct memory card photo printing feature.
 
Old 08-22-2011, 01:50 PM   #6
garydale
 
Registered: Feb 2007
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 8

Kernel (uname -r): 3.0.0-1-amd64
Distribution: Debian/Wheezey


Prints fine to CD/DVD and to photopaper, etc. The durabrite inks are supposed to last 100 years. So far I can't disagree with that assessment.

No problems sharing it.
 




  



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