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When you ran "Find New Printers" (under the Administration tab) was this device not detected?

(Yes,) the device was not detected.

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gungsukma wrote: the device was not detected

So it took two tricks to make this work - the 24-pin driver and your URI.

But I'm still curious. If you also installed the CUPS backend from the TMU package, would CUPS then auto-detect it?

Works for Epson Stylus NX420

2-e wrote:Works for Epson Stylus NX420

Excellent. Thank you.

This printer (epson stylus sx 130) is an mfp using separate cartridges for each colour. It is currently available from PC World for £25!!! Even the ink cartridges are cheap. Unfortunately it is not listed in the cups add printer lists and not in your epson driver list. However it has a driver on the Epson site in DEB and RPM format. please can you tell me what I need to do to use one of these.
I'm using Slacko 531 and trying Dpup 5X10

Happy New Year!

Ledster

Worked first time with Slacko 5.3.1 and an Epson Stylus SX425W (wireless) connected to computer via USB cable. Thank you! Wireless printing is over-rated anyway

Method: downloaded epson_inkjet_printer_escpr-1.1.0.pet via the forum link, followed the prompts, then went back to CUPS printing and the printer/driver combination was listed at the top of the options. Clicked "add printer" and all's good.

rcrsn51 wrote:The lastest version of this driver is too big to download through the forum. So get it here instead.

I downloaded the file from the link - Download.exe. I clicked and it ran in Wine but after some stuff about AOL it just kept cycling and never finished. Now what do I do? I'm trying to get Epson XP-300 to work. What versions of puppy is this file for?

OOPS I downloaded the wrong file. After downloading the right file my Epson XP-300 is working.

to Ledster

this is ubuntu way for canon_mf3010. have a try.
#canon_mf3010-64bit_driver_installation
http://support-asia.canon-asia.com/cont ... 70810.html
#download
tar -zxvf Linux_UFRII_PrinterDriver_V260_uk_EN.tar.gz
cd 64-bit_Driver
cd RPM
#alien should be installed
ln -s /usr/lib /usr/lib64
ln -s /usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib64
alien -i cndrvcups-common-2.60-1.x86_64.rpm
alien -i cndrvcups-ufr2-uk-2.50-1.x86_64.rpm
cp /usr/lib64/cups/filter/pstoufr2cpca /usr/lib/cups/filter
cp /usr/lib64/libcanon* /usr/lib
##[/quote]

Drivers for EPSON inkjet printers (ESC/P-R).
Build on 431JP2012 from the recent source. Tested on 431JP2012 and on 549JP04 with EP-704A.
epson_inkjet_printer_escpr-1.2.2.pet
http://shino.pos.to/party/bridge.cgi?puppy/opt/

list of supported printers


The build options for your information:
./configure --host=i486-t2-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --with-cupsppddir=/usr/share/cups/model --disable-shared
(Removed the static libraries.)

Has anyone an idea where can I find a driver for Epson TM-T88 (thermal POS printer) ? Thank you

Hallo, rcrsn51 (and everybody else!)

FYI: I run a Stylus SX 218, which works perfectly with the supplied driver from Epson's download page for my model. Curiously, it installs through CUPS initially only with the generic ESCP/R driver, but will use the correct driver if you then go back into 'Admin' and select 'Modify Printer', and select from the drop-down list as you go through the steps again in CUPS.

The point of my post is to let fellow Epson users know about the 'epson-printer-utility_1.0.0-1lsb3.2_i386.deb' package, which appears to be offered with the majority of the Epson printer drivers. This is basically a Linux version of the well-known Windows 'Epson Status Monitor'; offering ink-levels, head-cleaning, nozzle check, etc. Except instead of being the tiny little thing squashed into a corner of the screen as it appears in Windows, this is almost full-page, and therefore very easy to read.

It also offers the facility to change which printer is being monitored, if you run more than one.

It can be found here, and is a little over 1MB in size. Scroll to the bottom of the page, click on 'Accept', and the page will unscroll a bit further, showing the download. Most of you will want the 'i386.deb' package; this will install by clicking on it, like any .pet package.

For those of you running 64-bit Pups, use the 'amd_64.deb' entry, rather than the 'i386' one.

I've included a screenshot by way of illustration. I downloaded this thing nearly a year ago now, and only just got around to trying it the other night. It runs perfectly in all four of the Pups in my sig! Once installed, you can drag'n'drop it from /usr/bin to the desktop (and 'doll it up' with an icon, if you like!), so you have a launcher within easy access.

Until recently, I've been using a version of 'escputil', which the absent MikeB modified, several years ago, with his own, home-grown GTK+ front-end. I'm offering it here, if anybody else is interested. As far as I recall, you need 'escputil' installed first.

I'm guessing that the Epson 'Status Monitor' printer utility is probably based upon escputil as well.

Apologies if any of this is duplicating earlier postings from previous years.

Hope that helps some of you.


Mike.

G'day Mike,

Thanks for the new posting of the Epson Utility - it (the .deb version) works 'as advertised' in this TahrPup-6.0.1.

And now I don't have to start up my Windows7 laptop just to check on the ink levels of the wireless-networked XP-200 .

If I get the time, I'll see if I can run the utility from my data partition, once I've expanded the .deb package into its own directory, via a dragged sym-link to the desktops in other Pups. Could save me repeatedly installing the .deb in the other Fulls and Frugals on this computer. Or I could try an .sfs for the Frugals?

I wonder how/if this works in 64-bit Pups?

David S.

Hiya, Dave!

Um. Far as I know, there should be an 'amd64' entry on that Epson page I gave the link to. Give that a try, and see how you get on with it for the 64-bit Pups.

I've now modified my previous post to include the info for the 'amd_64' version for 64-bit Pups.

I included MikeB's GTK front-end (which he kindly let me have) for 'escputil' for the simple reason that some Puppians may consider that a meg-and-a-bit is too much for a simple printer utility. Mike's is much more economically coded, and, although far plainer in appearance than the Epson version, does precisely the same job.....being based upon the same 'backend'.

(Yes, I will confess.....the Epson version is far prettier to look at; but that's probably where all the extra size has come from!)

But that's the Puppy way, of course; choice.

Hope that helps ya! (If you try the 64-bit version, let me know how it works, willya? Don't currently have a 64-bit Pup I can test it on. Cheers!)


Mike.

G'day Mike,

I quickly tried to run the epson-printer-utility from my data partition (bin file sym-linked to the desktop) to various Pups but nothing worked.

I then began installing the .deb and had luck of both kinds.

Tahr 584, 601 runs
VividPup runs

Tahr-605 failed
Slacko-630 failed
UnicornPup failed
Wheezy failed

I briefly tried the failures from a terminal - Wheezy complained about libc.so.6 being the wrong version.
The others complained about 'child-processes' not being possible and similar messages that I don't understand how to attack, and didn't record .

I did see the 64-bit version so will try this on some 64-bit frugals.

David S.

Morning, David.

I'm really not surprised about Tahrpup 6.05 and Slacko 6.3.0. Mick & Phil between them have done a sterling job with both of the Pups, but there's been a major 'sea change' in the way a lot of things work.....and, of course, it's raised a whole new crop of bugs in the process.

UnicornPup & Wheezy.....can't comment; never even looked at them, never mind used them. I've no intentions of looking at UnicornPup or the 'Werewolf' thing in any case; they're both based on later versions of Ubuntu, and those started giving my machine hell a year or so back!

As far as your method of multiple sym-linking is concerned, well; I suspect you may have to accept that certain binaries and apps just aren't amenable to working that way..... Either that, or there's yet more relevant stuff to be sym-linked which you've not yet figured out!

Let me know how you get on with the 64-bit utility.


Mike.

G'day Epsoneers,

I recently had "fun" fixing the excellent home-network file-transfer package dukto6 so it would run in old Pups where there was a libc version error - Pups with older libc libraries.

By trial-and-erroring (and help from forum member 6502coder), I achieved a script to load just the newer libc files for just dukto, using the LD_LIBRARY_PATH function.

I extracted the newer libc files from a eglibc .deb file and copied these to a location that was NOT on the library-seeking path for Puppy.

The LD_LIBRARY_PATH directs Puppy to first look in this non-usual directory for lib files when executing the script.

I have now found this script will also run this epson-printer-utility in older Pups where I see the same error in the terminal.

The screenshots show:
the error message when trying the unmodified epson-printer-utility
the new lib files copied to a special dukto215 directory
the executable script using the LD_LIBRAY_PATH command to run the epson utility (in /opt)
the successful result showing the ink levels in my networked Epson printer.

David S.

Nice work. It's too bad that Epson doesn't provide the source code for this tool.

Yes, it is nice work. Well done, David!

I'm now having problems installing my printer in Tahrpup64. I've tried with the 32-bit driver, and the 64-bit one. (And yes, I do have the 32-bit compatibility libraries SFS package installed, and loaded).

This takes me back to my second ever post, when I didn't know a thing about how Puppy worked.

Every time, I'm getting the 'Filter failed' message coming up, when I try a test page. Any ideas, Bill?


Mike.

Deleted.

Hallo, Bill.

Sorry for the lack of info; it's the same old SX218 I've been using for the past 7 or 8 years.

rcrsn51 wrote:You haven't identified the printer model, but the Epson 64-bit packages need

Code: Select all

ln -sf ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 /lib64/ld-lsb-x86-64.so.3 
chmod 1777 /tmp

I take it that'll need to be run in the terminal in Tahrpup 64, yes? Should I uninstall the printer first before running that, and then re-install it again? I'm guessing it'll probably work better like that.

Are those additional packages that need to be installed?


Mike.