[gustavodelascasas@yahoo.com: Re: How to find ppd's in printer-driver-escpr?]
Intended for the list but for some reason did not make it.
Brian.
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Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 23:05:57 -0400
From: Gustavo de las Casas <gustavodelascasas@yahoo.com>
To: Brian Potkin <brian@copernicus.demon.co.uk>, debian-printing@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: How to find ppd's in printer-driver-escpr?
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Thanks to you both. I want to offer a how-to, when all this is said and done.
That said, I also want to proceed in a cautious and elegant manner. I will get
back to you sometime between tomorrow and Tuesday.
On 04/22/2016 08:17 AM, Brian Potkin wrote:
> On Fri 22 Apr 2016 at 11:04:53 +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
>
>> Hi Gustavo,
>>
>> Le jeudi, 21 avril 2016, 18.38:12 Gustavo de las Casas a écrit :
>>> I am in the process of installing an Epson XP-830 printer. The binary
>>> printer-driver-escpr says it contains .ppd's in compressed form. How
>>> do I find them? I intend to use CUPS, but need to find the ppd for
>>> setting up an Epson printer (XP-830). CUPS also doesn't list the
>>> printer currently. The question has gone unanswered so far in a
>>> forum.
>> The PPDs are compressed in the /usr/lib/cups/driver/escpr file. You can
>> see the list of PPD files this way:
>>
>> /usr/lib/cups/driver/escpr list
>>
>> This will output the PPD file for you:
>> /usr/lib/cups/driver/escpr cat "escpr:0/cups/model/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr/Epson-XP-830_Series-epson-escpr-en.ppd"
>>
>> But CUPS should show the "Epson XP-830 Series" printer when setting up a printer. Do you have cups & cups-filters installed?
> He is on Wheezy and the printer is a relatively new one with no PPD; I
> do not think Jessie has it either.
>
> http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=128047
>
> Gustavo could download the unstable source package
>
> http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/e/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr_1.6.4.orig.tar.gz
>
> extract the PPD from it, and tell CUPS where to find it using the web
> interface. My reservations about doing this concern whether Wheezy's
> epson-escpr and epson-escpr-wrapper filters would do justice to this
> printer.
>
> Alternatively, he could download printer-driver-escpr_1.6.4-1_i386.deb
> from unstable; it will install on Wheezy with 'dpkg -i'. Any complaints
> about python3 missing can be dealt with with 'apt-get -f install'.
>
> Gustavo is not subscribed to this list (there is no LDOSUBSCRIBER tag in
> his mail headers) so I have sent a Cc:. Perhaps he would consider
> updating us here (and the folks at forums.debian.net) if either or both
> of these techniques work.
>
> Regards,
>
> Brian.
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