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Epson Stylus Color 850
 
Color inkjet printer, max. 1440x720 dpi, works Perfectly
Recommended Driver: gutenprint (Home page)
Generic Instructions: CUPS, no spooler
 

Miscellaneous

Printer supports direct text printing with the 'us-ascii' charset.

Comments

used stc800ih.upp for making some color overheads, including some molecular model pictures.
4 color CMYK printing with 64 jets per color. All the stc800 upp files will work with this printer at a very good speed.
The uniprint .upp files need some color tuning! If red comes out as brown, you may need to swap the Cyan and Magenta lines in the stc800p.upp file, for example, and even then the colors will be sort fo dark. Ghostscript's dithering is also not very good.
The good news is the Gimp-derived ghostscript driver "stp" is really good, so use it; it works perfectly with stp.

Consumables/Refills: seperate black and color ink cartridges

Drivers

The following driver(s) are known to drive this printer:

Recommended driver:

 
gutenprint  (driver home page)
 
Top Quality Printer Drivers for inkjets, dye sublimation printers, and PCL lasers
Supplier: Gutenprint project
License: GPL (free software)
User support:Gutenprint mailing list at SourceForge (voluntary)
Color output   Type: CUPS Raster
Text:||||||||||  90Graphics:||||||||||  100System Load:Unknown
Line Art:||||||||||  90Photo:||||||||||  100Speed:||||||||||  60
 

Other drivers:

 
gimp-print  (driver home page)
 
This driver is obsolete. Recommended replacement driver: gutenprint
This driver is free software.
Type: CUPS Raster
 

 
stc800X.upp  (driver home page)
 
This driver is obsolete. Recommended replacement driver: gutenprint
This driver is free software.
Type: Ghostscript Uniprint
Download:PPD file: View PPD, directly download PPD