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Epson Stylus Color 860
 
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

The best driver is the stp driver from the gimp-print project. Various older stylus drivers also work, but the quality is not as good.

Epson offers this $50 rebate until the end of March, 2001.

Consumables/Refills: Black Cartridge, Color Cartridge ($ ??)

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This driver is obsolete.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
 

 
omni  (driver home page)
 
This driver is free software.
Type: Ghostscript built-in
 

 
stc2X.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This driver is obsolete.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
 

 
stc740X.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This driver is obsolete.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