Installing printers

[Peter Goggin]

I have 4 usb devices ,
printers :epson XP-100, samsung cpl-320n, brother hl 22
scanners epson perfection 3490.

I was able to install all three printers on a lenova 61s running ubuntu 
14.04.
Sane was able to detct the dedicatred scanner but unable to access the 
scanning function on the XP-100

I was able to install the brother printer on a Lenovo W500 again running 
ubuntu 14.04.
With the epson xp100 it tried to download and use the propriety epson 
driver but after accepting the licence agreement  the process asks for 
autourisation , starts the download and then hangs. I waited 1 hour but 
there was no progress.

I rebooted the machine and this time chose a local driver. The process 
hung. I rebooted and tried with the Samsung. The system chose the 
gutenprint drivers. It spent some time loading from the internet then 
asked for authorization. The system monitor showed very little internet 
or cpu activity, downloads rates at 50bytes , with total download of 
2Mb. I rebooted the machine, and tried with a local driver. The system 
again hung. I retried with glutenprint drivers without success.

I do not understand what is happening. Can any one suggest what I should 
do next? When this machine ran windows there was no problem in 
configuring the printers, the dedicates scanner and the scanning part of 
the XP100. Should I be looking for drivers elsewhere?

I have another lenovo , an R61. I was able to install the printers on 
this machine.

I have two more windows machines but untill I can find out why the 
printers do not work with W500 am not going to risk installing ubuntu on 
them.
Thanks in advance for any advice

Regards

Peter Goggin