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  • anyone have any experience with Epson printers on Solus?

@davezilla all my reading says ipp everywhere is effective but WIFI only, no usb cord allowed.

I want to use a USB cord.

Here's the weird things. In endeavour//arch the printer installed simply. had to check I had foomatic-dbs, the canon ufrii package, sane-backends...
...same packages in Solus.
Except Endeavour found the driver in the add printer list and Solus did not. Same core packages. Well evidently not.

Oh I hate cups but reading how-to right now.
Going to give up and eat soon. At least I can find a scanner.

brent
Excellent revenge for something so vile, appalling and stupid. And, I'm sorry, so American (the "business model" that is).

      Sorry to hear that you bought a CANON printer, although back in the days I used to buy them, too (already on Linux).
      I was going to tell you of my wonderful EPSON WorkForce WF-7710 printer/scanner/fax machine that does A4, letters, cards, envelopes, even A3 prints - yes, it is a monster and I love it. I use it with a USB cable (laptop) and via wifi (laptop and smartphone).
      I have to admit though that I gave up on drivers and scanner software at some point and decided to invest in drivers that do every trick by the German company ZEDONET https://www.zedonet.com/en_p.phtml - the driver packages for Linux go by the name TurboPrint.
      They have driver packages (especially for Linux but also for MAC and Windows, see https://www.zedonet.com/en_home_company.phtml) for the home user and for professionals with easy-to-understand installation routines that just work. Their drivers don't cost a fortune and can be used on several machines for two years in a row (the ones I went for).
      The reason I decided to go for those drivers is that I stopped believing that everything in my little computing world must be free of cost: My computer's OS is for free, its software is for free, I am using secondhand hardware that makes things cheap, so why should I not invest a small amount in something that gets rid of the fact that a lot of Linux problems are just unnecessary and force me to try coding - WHAT???
      Even on SOLUS (which I have been using for many years and am a huge fan of!) printer/scanner drivers can be a feckin' pain up my neck that I don't want to waste time on. So there.
      A recommendation in nuce.

      SOLUSfiddler
      Ha! It is becoming vile and stupid and appaling but I figured Solus would be 5-6 days til I cracked it,

      I'm seeing DMG decompression tools in Linux for cracking a ppd out of a Mac package!

      Another day!

      when I looked back at old posts about this you were endorsing a German pay-for-your driver company. Do you remember it? That will be day 7🙂

          brent
          The German pay-for-your-driver company is described above your post. And, yes, I remember our old thread!

            Living in Southern Germany I will go to bed now, I enjoy these forum chats a lot!
            See ya again soon, brent!

            brent Brent sorry if I confused you so use to using network stuff and banger jogged my memory
            After looking into it if we had an updated UFRII solus package it would be good to go
            even for my mf733cdw to work over usb.

                Axios I was congratulating you for giving me the solution (temporary). Nothing to apologize for. Maybe i didn't make myself clear (frustrated), I can print. You record is 2-0 victory with this very model. 🙂
                Solus package does not have does not have a driver for my model (Image Class D570).

                but the 330s are a good temp solution.

                    brent @axios like I said the 330's are fine I just have no control to shrink or oversize; some other controls are probably not there as well. Since my printer life is 90% black and white, 8.5X11, this is a good place to be in.

                    When I absolutely need the control/features a correct print driver will bring--will cross that bridge later.

                    Weird thing though. The .deb had two weird build files, neither decompressible. The RPM had a crapload of de-compressible files and folders but none of them said dot ppd. I wonder if they were faking me out with the file endings? Who knows🙂

                        brent np on this end would be cool have a maintainer for that eopkg
                        think lots canon users be happy.
                        I tried that copy files n stuff when I first got my printer and I got angry real fast
                        all it would do is complain on whatever I did.

                            Sebastian I initially wanted to reply that my Epson ML-1630 laser printer worked flawlessly on Solus. Then I discovered that this printer was actually a Samsung 🙈
                            When the toner cartridge was empty, I ditched it cause it wasn't impeccable anymore anyways.
                            I didn't by a new printer. Ever since, if I need something printed, I go to the drug store 2 minutes from my place where they have a kodak copy station where you can print photos and scan and print PDF documents.
                            So I prepare the document as PDF on my PC, and then transfer it with my smartphone via bluetooth or wifi to the copy station.
                            Sure, I pay 10 cents per A4 page, but don't have to worry about paper and cartridge, let alone driver installation.
                            I do have a scanner though.
                            If you print a lot, 10 cents per page is a bad deal, though.

                            In my business they still like to kill trees so we do maybe 10 copies a day at home if working at home. If things were different, I would be adhering to your romanticized version of walking to the dime-a-copy drugstore. I would much prefer doing that (other people's equipment), walking distance, dimes for personal stuff like taxes, copies, etc.

                            You make a good point about simplicity, thought. because at the end of the day, between the printer and scanners I've accumulated...it's just boat anchor plastic weight around my neck, cluttering the house. I appreciate your thoughtful post: KISS is my philosophy when I can.

                              Axios so I got to thinking
                              I have imageclass. we are using drivers (300s) from the imagerunner.
                              in my reading these were nearly the same except imageclass=home use and imagerunner=business use..

                              you knew somehow the imagerunner drivers would work in the imageclass. that makes total sense. it made me wonder how many others were transferrable between runner and class? Or did we hit the sweet spot with the 300s?
                              Ah the mystery!

                                  brent Since you can download the generic UFRII from cannon which is current and
                                  has both drivers for our printers.
                                  This thread was interesting but I wouldnt do it on your everyday machine (I got the hardware need set up test computer sometime so if I hose it i can start over)
                                  https://discuss.getsol.us/d/5636-run-rpm-or-convert-rpm-packages/7
                                  Or package it and see what happens.
                                  Dunno I just dont have the thrill for that stuff anymore.
                                  Anyways it was interesting.

                                  Note: Its a shame we dont have Maintainer for that package as printers are so basic.

                                      Yes, isn't the most logic thing to download the driver from Canon site as the one dude did in the one link I was posting?

                                        Axios not going to try to convert RPM packages in Solus that is for the adrenaline junkies! Leaving well enough alone. I have a functioning printer with built in scanner (gnome scanner is perfect).

                                        Thanks for getting me up and running.

                                        Axios Note: Its a shame we dont have Maintainer for that package as printers are so basic.

                                        True. When we fulfill the Solus vision statement and have a user repo (aur), that will change everything in cases like this and maybe the best thing in the long run (thinking)

                                        MODS: Solved, please close, thanks!

                                            Sebastian ran the install script several times...always fails/aborts because Solus is not set up with dpkg and apt-get. it says this exact thing in the install output. the guy in your link had Mint. True open source drivers (non deb non rpm) do not exist for this model.