Hi,
On 3/24/25 14:20, Mateus Rodrigues Costa wrote:
Hello all,
I upgraded to Fedora 42 Beta and it seems the Epson drivers were
removed from the repos.
I wanted to clarify whether the expected course of action for Epson
users is to try the Gutenprint drivers or get the drivers directly
from Epson [0].
It seems that there is also the printer queue approach [1]
the approach was always there even with Epson drivers - unless you use a
specific application which bypasses CUPS, there was always a print queue
matching to your printer. In general print queue is CUPS internal
abstract representation of printer, but most docs and apps call 'print
queue' as 'printer', since it is more understandable. The mentioned
Fedora doc uses print queue, since it mentiones the real device
'printer' as well, so it has to show the difference in the text to do
not cause misunderstandings.
that was
mentioned, although I haven't yet figure how to make it work for my
printer (I will have to read the Docs page a bit more carefully).
In general if the printer is network, look in its specs (its docs, web
ui or printer panel) for AirPrint, mDNS and IPP options - enable them
and the device is picked by any up-to-date application (GTK3+ apps,
Firefox, IIRC Qt can do it now too. AFAIK only chromium/Chrome default
print dialog is not updated to work this way).
USB printer can work without driver if the device supports IPP-over-USB
- check 'sudo ipp-usb check' - if the printer is shown in output, it is
handled automatically and shown in applications the same as the network
ones.
If neither of them work, you have to use Epson driver and install the
print queue manually either by application, CUPS Web ui or CLI commands.
Hope it helps,
Zdenek
I assume that aside from the fact that the maintainer dropped the
packages for not using Epson printers in long time, there is also the
fact that the "classic" drivers support from CUPS will be dropped in
the near future...
[0] https://support.epson.net/linux/Printer/LSB_distribution_pages/en/escpr.php
[1]
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/cups-useful-tricks/#_how_to_install_a_print_queue
Thanks for your patience,
Mateus Rodrigues Costa
Em ter., 10 de dez. de 2024 às 06:20, Susi Lehtola
<jussileht...@fedoraproject.org> escreveu:
Hi,
I have orphaned epson-inkjet-printer-escpr and epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2 due
to lack of time and as I have not had an Epson inkjet printer for over two
years.
Susi
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