Hello, dear maintainer, I have spent six hours in a hope to figure out the situation. I have polled three incremental groups of packages...over three distributions, and tested each case individually:
x.1) printer-driver-gutenprint, libgutenprint2 x.2) (1) + foomatic-db x.3) (2) + foomatic-db-gutenprint, ijsgutenprint over 1.x) wheezy 2.x) testing 3.x) sid Between groups, I have been restarting cups. And between releases, I have removed every related package before switching source lists. Every single case has been tested and screenshoted (for me). I found out, that there are actually THREE different drivers, that appear *in CUPS driver selection dialogue* if certain conditions meet: 1)- Epson Esc/P-R, a primitive one. Shows up and works over all three distros. 2)- CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.9(wheezy); 5.2.10(sid). Its broken in Testing, does not appear there. Nothing "foomatic" is needed for this one to work. 3)- Foomatic/Gutenprint -5.2/-simplified. Initially, I though that I used this (3) driver, but correctly I used (2). The driver (3) appears in CUPS dialog, when "foomatic-db-engine" package is installed. And it appeared because I started experimenting when printer stopped working. Image: http://imgur.com/l59PIbu I think it should *NOT* appear in CUPS printer driver selection dialog, and should be part of "foomatic-filters", package that replaces CUPS? Because its broken in all three releases: Every release, one tries to install driver (3) of any printer that has no drivers installed, there is a message about inability to copy PPD. My previous reports actually consist of a mix of this issue and original issue of testing/(2) For reference, the corresponding versions of packages over three releases: escputil foomatic-db-gutenprint gimp-gutenprint ijsgutenprint - with each sid: 5.2.10-2, testing: 5.2.10~pre2-2, wheezy: 5.2.9-1, and foomatic-db (sid, testing: 20140325-1, wheezy: 20120523-1) Thanks!