Epson L355 printer

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Axios That is the second link I posted.

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brent I used the USB cord and I did not reboot.
I am currently away from my printer. I will try installing iscan later.

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The brave package is updated using a deb file. Can a package be submitted using a deb file as well?

brent

[deleted] "The note on brave's own website says on Solus it's converted from a deb, but per the instructions putting the source tarball link here -
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/download/v1.20.104/brave-browser-1.20.104-linux-amd64.zip"

I did see that and there's likely more context we're not seeing. however this package still needs a patch as well as a maintainer.

[deleted] Can a package be submitted using a deb file as well?

You can try to formally request this at devtracker with the package link to the deb. It might get merged with the other task, or it may get pursued. All you can do it try.

Also Axios was just trying to help. He knows more about connecting wayward peripherals than I would ever know.

brent

https://www.cnblogs.com/memphise/articles/6485173.html

*see also: a guy that compiled his own L355 driver package from source (likely having to navigate thru the .deb package as someone would need to do for you but that was not mentioned).
*sure does not look easy but he succeeded.
*another poster on that thread got so frustrated they paid 40Euro to just pay for a proprietary linux package for that Epson series (an expensive option--he left a link).

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I got a deb from Epson (first Download button, second deb):

epson-inkjet-printer-201207w_1.0.0-1lsb3.2_amd64.deb
|--data.tar.gz
   |--opt
      |--epson-inkjet-printer-201207w
         |--cups
            |--lib
               |--filter
                  epson_inkjet_printer_filter
         |--doc
            |--AUTHORS   (Copyright: Epson)
            |--COPYING    (It tells you to read the next 2 files)
            |--COPYING.EPSON   (an EULA)
            |--COPYING.LIB   (The GNU LGPL)
            |--Manual.txt   (What the printer can do)
            |--README   (1. What printer this is for
                         2. The license for two object codes
                         3. A link to where I search for to download the deb)
         |--lib64
            |---libEpson_201207w.MT.so.1.0.0
            |---libEpson_201207w.so.1.0.0
         |--ppds
            |--Epson
               |--Epson-L355_Series-epson-driver.ppd.gz
               |--(and 6 more ppd.gz for more printers)
         |--resource
            |--Epson_201207w.1.data
            |--Epson_201207w.MT.1.data
            |--Epson_201207w.MT.2.data
            |--Epson_201207w.MT.3.data
            |--Epson_201207w.MT.4.data
            |--Epson_201207w.MT.5.data
            |--Epson_201207w.MT.6.data
         |--watermark
            |---WEPCG00.EID
            |--(and 9 more watermarks)

And I copied some of its files:

epson_inkjet_printer_filter (from epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/cups/lib/filter) is now in /usr/lib64/cups/filter
doc (from epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/) is now in /usr/share/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w
libEpson_201207w.MT.so.1.0.0 and libEpson_201207w.so.1.0.0 (from epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/lib64) are now in /usr/lib64 and I chmod 755 them.
Epson (from epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/ppds) is now in /usr/share/cups/model and I gzip -d all its ppd.gz)
resource (from epson-inkjet-printer-201207w) is now in /usr/share/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w
watermark (from epson-inkjet-printer-201207w) is now in /usr/share/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w

I tried to add the printer manually. Printer Settings showed me an error message: epson_inkjet_printer_filter was missing. But I knew exactly where it was because I put it there.
I read the content of Epson-L355_Series-epson-driver.ppd and edited it to look for epson_inkjet_printer_filter where it actually was. Printer Settings did not show me that error message again.

I also edited Epson-L355_Series-epson-driver.ppd to look for the watermarks where it actually were.
Previously, libEpson_201207w.MT.so.1.0.0 and libEpson_201207w.so.1.0.0 were in /usr/share/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w but I did not chmod 755 them back then.

And this printer refuses to print...

I also know that this manual (for Linux) by Epson exists.

brent

2 and 3 look normal to me but why the chmods?
4 I'm not sure. 5 should be in lib64, no?
never heard of watermark stuff.
did you guess with a lot of this? where did you get this tutorial?

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brent why the chmods?

To make their mode bits equal to the rest of .so in lib64.

brent never heard of watermark stuff

They are diagonal black text ("Confidential", "Draft", "Urgent", etc) in a white background.

brent where did you get this tutorial?

From reading several package.yml, the pkgbuild of the driver for the L355 in the AUR, and looking at my file manager.

pomon

Here you have the package for your printer.

alveion

Can you use L310 driver? That worked on my L360 printer.

Axios

Be interesting to see if it works. did numerous searches for that found the aur one but never that one the list was short
Oh well

brent

[deleted] Ah---I completely respect you taking the bull by the horns and DIY. I do this a lot when I have to and I don't stop with the questions, either.

That said you are using the deb package.
I don't know what you did right or what you did wrong so I can lo longer be of value.
Instead of study the AUR package maybe look at how Solus pakages a driver package?
You seem close and it's just a matter a wrong folder or a run dependency?