Unsupported: Epson Photo R360

[Rich Lott]

Hi John, very excited at prospect of having a working printer.

I downloaded pipslite for cups, used alien to make deb, installed .deb. 
Renamed /dev/usb/lp0 as you did (my printer turns up in /dev/ like yours 
does).

But I'm having probs running the install script (also, I had to install 
gtk1.2). I get a dialog box up which says "Checking..." then after  asecond 
or so, it says "PPD file need to be created for the printer to be registered 
to CUPS. Please make sure the printer is connected to your computer and have 
it turned on!". Printer is connected and turned on (it appears in /dev). But 
I only have the Cancel option -- the Continue option is greyed out.

Any ideas?

thanks,

rich

On Tuesday 16 January 2007 18:36, John Mark Walker wrote:
> You want "pipslite" - I have the r380 printer, which is very similar
> to the r360.
>
> You can get pipslite, which is GPL'd, at
> http://www.avasys.jp/english/linux_e/dl_ink.html
>
> I used alien to convert the RPM to a .deb. I also had to edit
> /etc/ekpdrc to replace "/dev/usb/lp0" with "/dev/usblp0" which is
> where the device was actually created - YMMV. Then you run a file
> called "pipslite-install" which is in /usr/local/EPAva/LITE/  After
> that, you add the new printer via an admin tool, and you'll need to
> manually add the PPD file that the install program should have placed
> in /usr/share/cups/model/
>
> All in all, I hope someone picks it up and puts it in a debian or
> ubuntu repository. The only thing I can't do with it is print on CD's.
>
> -JM
>
> On 1/16/07, Rich Lott <rl5 at shinyblue.net> wrote:
> > I looked on http://openprinting.org/ before buying this printer, which
> > was reported to work "Mostly". Turns out I didn't spot the fact that this
> > information was not verified, and seems to be completely wrong.
> >
> > Whenever I send anything to print (eg. the test page that CUPS makes) the
> > printer immediately (i.e. even before gutenprint has finished processing
> > the file) starts feeding pages through and doesn't stop, not even if you
> > press the red "Stop/Clear" button on the printer.
> >
> > Has anyone else got this printer and did you get it working?
> >
> > Any help much appreciated.
> >
> > thanks,
> > rich
> >
> > ===== Details follow =====
> >
> > I've tried the following drivers for R300 and R340 (nearest matches):
> >
> > - CUPS + Gutenprint v5.0.0
> > Foomatic/Gutenprint-ijs-simplified 5.0
> > Foomatic/Gutenprint-ijs 5.0
> >
> > All exibit the same behaviour.
> >
> > I'm using (K)ubuntu Edgy with the following software:
> >
> > foomatic-db/edgy uptodate 20060918-0ubuntu2
> > foomatic-db-engine/edgy uptodate 3.0.2-20060925-0ubuntu1
> > foomatic-db-gutenprint/edgy uptodate 5.0.0-2ubuntu2
> > foomatic-db-hpijs/edgy uptodate 20060925-0ubuntu1
> > foomatic-filters/edgy uptodate 3.0.2-20060918-0ubuntu1
> > foomatic-filters-ppds/edgy uptodate 20060530-2
> > foomatic-db-gutenprint/edgy uptodate 5.0.0-2ubuntu2
> > ijsgutenprint/edgy uptodate 5.0.0-2ubuntu2
> > libgutenprint2/edgy uptodate 5.0.0-2ubuntu2
> > cupsys/edgy uptodate 1.2.4-2ubuntu3
> > cupsys-bsd/edgy uptodate 1.2.4-2ubuntu3
> > cupsys-client/edgy uptodate 1.2.4-2ubuntu3
> > cupsys-common/edgy uptodate 1.2.4-2ubuntu3
> > cupsys-driver-gutenprint/edgy uptodate 5.0.0-2ubuntu2
> > libcupsys2/edgy uptodate 1.2.4-2ubuntu3
> > libcupsys2-dev/edgy uptodate 1.2.4-2ubuntu3
> >
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