> Thanks, Roger! I'm glad to know that there's something in the works. > I tried the NX415 driver from Debian Squeeze and got a couple of lines > at the top of a page and lots of blank paper after that. > > I googled a bit and came up with a website from openprinting.org that > had proprietary (and some open) drivers for lots of printers, > including the NX420 -- as .deb and .rpm, no less! The one for the > NX420 was i386 and AMD64 binary-only, no source provided, and the > machine I wanted to install it on was an ARMel OpenRD "Ultimate". > Fortunately I had an old Toshiba laptop I'd recently installed Debian > Squeeze on, so I downloaded the openprinting.org driver and installed > it there. > > It seems to work OK, but if I export the printer via CUPS from the > Toshiba to the OpenRD and try to use it to print that way from the > OpenRD, the driver on the Toshiba dies with a segfault. So it's not > perfect. > > If I replace "lpr" on the OpenRD with a stub that does ssh to the > Toshiba and runs lpr there, everything seems to be OK. But it's a > kludge that should not be necessary if Epson would just release the > source for their drivers. > > Ahhh well... A perfect world would be *so* boring! > > Rick
This is a little off your topic, but I have an Epson (C88) as well, and wish that CUPS/driver supported ink levels, head cleaning and alignment, and duplexing (the Epson Windows driver supports this with 2-pass printing). Any reason they are not supported? Just curious. Thanks, Dave -- dave boland dbola...@fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Accessible with your email software or over the web -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1305913401.21020.1454207...@webmail.messagingengine.com
