Epson C65 poor quality printing

[Anonymous]

Me again...could it be because of differences between ps-to-raster and ps2pdf -perhaps using another ghostscript version/variant-? I mean, when the original postscript is "expanded" to pdf via ps2pdf the printing is well done. I guess that here occur at least two passes of ghostscript interpretation, first to go from pdf to ps (ps2pdf - 1st pass), then again to ps (pdf2ps cups filter) and finally to rasterize (ps-to-raster - 2nd pass). But the postscript that ps-to-raster receives could be somewhat more "expanded" than the original one, because of the in-between conversion to pdf. On the other hand, when I send the postscript directly to cups, the resulting output looks awful. But here ps-to-raster could be doing part of the job that in the previous case did ps2pdf. I mean this postcript would perhaps be more programatically described than the one which went to pdf first. So there could be differences between what ps2pdf and ps-to-raster are doing. Perhaps I should try printing directly via ghostscript or by means of foomatic.
Please, again, can you help me? I'm pretty confused.
Best regars,
Carlos

> Hi!
> I have recently bought an epson c65. First thing I did was trying it from winxp: it worked pretty fast and the quality of its output looked good enough. Then I print the same document from cups using the drivers from the rc1 of gimp-print. At first it looked awful no matter the resolution I setted for the printing. Bold and low resolution "pixelated" fonts. The document in question is a postscript file B obtained from application of pstops to another postscript A obtained from a text file via enscript. B contains 2 pages of A per page of B. A is printed fine. Also if I transform B to a pdf with ps2pdf then the resulting pdf is printed fine too. Finally if I print A specifying two pages per sheet in the kprint dialog box the resolution is ok too. I can't see what is happening. I have used pstops for years without inconvenients. Any clue?
> Thank you in advance.
> Regards,
> Carlos