Intended for the list but for some reason did not make it. Brian.
----- Forwarded message from Gustavo de las Casas <[email protected]> ----- Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 23:05:57 -0400 From: Gustavo de las Casas <[email protected]> To: Brian Potkin <[email protected]>, [email protected] Subject: Re: How to find ppd's in printer-driver-escpr? User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.3.0 Thanks to you both. I want to offer a how-to, when all this is said and done. That said, I also want to proceed in a cautious and elegant manner. I will get back to you sometime between tomorrow and Tuesday. On 04/22/2016 08:17 AM, Brian Potkin wrote: > On Fri 22 Apr 2016 at 11:04:53 +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > >> Hi Gustavo, >> >> Le jeudi, 21 avril 2016, 18.38:12 Gustavo de las Casas a écrit : >>> I am in the process of installing an Epson XP-830 printer. The binary >>> printer-driver-escpr says it contains .ppd's in compressed form. How >>> do I find them? I intend to use CUPS, but need to find the ppd for >>> setting up an Epson printer (XP-830). CUPS also doesn't list the >>> printer currently. The question has gone unanswered so far in a >>> forum. >> The PPDs are compressed in the /usr/lib/cups/driver/escpr file. You can >> see the list of PPD files this way: >> >> /usr/lib/cups/driver/escpr list >> >> This will output the PPD file for you: >> /usr/lib/cups/driver/escpr cat >> "escpr:0/cups/model/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr/Epson-XP-830_Series-epson-escpr-en.ppd" >> >> But CUPS should show the "Epson XP-830 Series" printer when setting up a >> printer. Do you have cups & cups-filters installed? > He is on Wheezy and the printer is a relatively new one with no PPD; I > do not think Jessie has it either. > > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=128047 > > Gustavo could download the unstable source package > > > http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/e/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr_1.6.4.orig.tar.gz > > extract the PPD from it, and tell CUPS where to find it using the web > interface. My reservations about doing this concern whether Wheezy's > epson-escpr and epson-escpr-wrapper filters would do justice to this > printer. > > Alternatively, he could download printer-driver-escpr_1.6.4-1_i386.deb > from unstable; it will install on Wheezy with 'dpkg -i'. Any complaints > about python3 missing can be dealt with with 'apt-get -f install'. > > Gustavo is not subscribed to this list (there is no LDOSUBSCRIBER tag in > his mail headers) so I have sent a Cc:. Perhaps he would consider > updating us here (and the folks at forums.debian.net) if either or both > of these techniques work. > > Regards, > > Brian. ----- End forwarded message -----
