Epson 740 printerinstall-help needed for newbie but wannabie
Have spent a few enjoyable hours running the CD & familiarising myself with this new system. Great for system recovery! Need help Installing an Epson 740 printer. It is recognised & correctly named under Info Centre/USB, but when going through the printer config, Test produces no result. Have created passwords in both root & knoppix. Would really appreciate some help...nothing in the forum or FAQ that I haven't done (I think!!)
Caid
Hey fellas, don't forget me!
Any ideas about the original Epson problem? Really would like to get this sorted PLEEEEEEEASE!!
Caid
Re: Hey fellas, don't forget me!
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Originally Posted by caid
Any ideas about the original Epson problem? Really would like to get this sorted PLEEEEEEEASE!!
Caid
Go to this page and download and save the ppd file for your printer and follow the generic instructions for the CUPS setup page for step 2 on this page you should have saved the dowloaded ppd file to /usr/share/cups/model/ steps 3 to 6 you can cut'n'paste into a root shell note: step 6 always fails for me but the printing still works. Then to setup your printer use the http://localhost:631 url click on administration and enter the root user and password in the dialog then add printer and follow the wizard and use the Epson_Driver_ppd_dowloaded that will be in the list and that's it. Sorry should have repiled to the original question as well.
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Almost forgot you will want to install mtink and escputil for the ink level and epson utilities. Useful alias in your ~/.bashrc alias ink="escputil -i -r /dev/lp0" it allows you to check the ink level from the command line with the command ink.
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