(SOLVED PARTIALLY) Re: Cups problems adding printer Epson in new Debian install
I want to thank Joe B <jcb2023az@gmail.com> for the suggestion
to also install the printer-driver-escpr pkg, and David Wright
<deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> to whom I want to say that Epson Connect
is the app for Smartphones Android that I have used to print in the
last few days by transferring files from the PC to the Smartphone.
As for Thorsten Alteholz <debian@alteholz.de> who closed the
Bugreport #1079243 that I had opened, stating: “Anyway, as others
reported to be able to successfully print to that printer model,
I am afraid this is some kind of configuration problem on your side.”
I would like to tell him that, if he wants to do the community a favor,
he should reopen it, in fact, I KNOW VERY WELL THAT THAT PRINTER
WORKS WITH CUPS ON DEBIAN, in fact I have used it since September
2023 with the Debian that I have in another partition and which
I installed in 2005 and I always updated up to Trixie, perhaps
it wasn't clear what I wrote in the Bugreport: “Since I have the
PPD file that worked on the other partition with Debian, ...”.
However, frustrated by this response, I thought maybe it was a good
thing to “remove –purge” Cups. Then I reinstalled, this time,
among the suggested packages I loaded openprinting-ppds (I didn't
know if it was a useful package or not, but anyway, I used, in the
past, to download the drivers from openprinting!).
When I tried to install the printer again, it gave me the same errors
if I used “driverless” while, instead, it worked when I chose my
printer model among those offered in the new (much longer) list of
Epson printers.
Maybe openprinting-ppds should be moved to "Recommended" from
"Suggested"
Thank you for reading.
Aldo :-)
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