Epson PM A850 on FC4/5 issues

[Joel Rees]

> I've used an Epson PM A850 printer/scanner with Fedora Core 4, using either the PM-850PT or the PM-970C, I don't remember which, but it quit working on FC5.
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> I filed a bug on bugzilla several months ago, and recently it was marked as CANTFIX because "There doesn't seem to be a driver for this particular printer."
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>     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=201531
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> Any comments?

Okay, I dug out the manual for the printer and found that I had noted (two years ago) that I had found somewhere that this printer was probably the same as the RX600 or RX610 oversees. On Fedora Core 6, without gutenprint installed, the gimp-print PPD for the RX600 prints a perfect test page, edge to every edge, but fails to physically eject the page at the very end. With gutenprint installed, it prints perfectly, edge-to-edge on all edges except the final edge, where it seems to lose the last millimeter or so.

The RX620 and RX630 drivers and the RX600 non-gimp-print drivers also seem to work well, but I'm not getting the last millimeter or so of the left and right edges. One, I think it was RX620 with the ijs simplified non-foomatic driver, printed the final line about two millimeters short of the A4 page. (And suddenly I'm wondering how the system knew to print A4 pages.)

Sorry for the noise.

Joel Rees