Well if you got yours running then your doing good. Epson told me themselves they don’t make drivers now for Linux. The drivers they still have online are very old and out of date. I took my Epson printer back because I couldn’t get it to work with my fedora Linux. I finally went with the newest all-in-one brother printer with wide format. And works great and they will help anyone running Linux and the drivers are the most up to date.
On Wed, Dec 28, 2022, at 16:51, Nathan via PLUG-discuss wrote: > On Tuesday, December 27, 2022 3:09:17 PM CST Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss > wrote: >> Brother supports Linux on all their printers. I have a all-in-one with fax >> and works great. Epson stopped supporting Linux 3 years ago. >> > > > You got anything to support this? In the past several years I have, very > happily, dumped my HP printers and replaced them with Epson EcoTank printers > and love them. > > So much so, that I just recently purchased their 16600 series for my wife's > Etsy business. They are fast, and flawless, as far as I can tell. > > We use all Fedora, if that makes a difference. > I will never again purchase anything but Epson. > > (one caveat, I use ethernet solely for my printers. I despise wifi) > > > > > > >> On Tue, Dec 27, 2022, at 12:06, Rusty Carruth via PLUG-discuss wrote: >> > Report on printer compatibility with Linux as experienced today. >> > >> > I won't bore everyone with all the details (but I will mention this >> > whole exercise took many hours of research, plus 2 trips to 3 different >> > stores, and the purchase and return of a printer that didn't do fax as I >> > wanted), but, I was in the market for a printer to replace my HP color >> > laser all-in-one. >> > >> > >> > Why would I replace a really nice HP Color LaserJet? Well, it >> > apparently decided that it wouldn't print well any more with non-HP >> > carts, and buying a full set of the silly things was in the neighborhood >> > of $300 or more, IIRC. (Oh, and the HP instant ink program, which >> > looked like a pretty good deal, is ONLY for inkjet printers!) >> > >> > >> > So, I figured I could spend $300 for genuine HP and HOPE it made the >> > printer happy, or punt and get a new printer. I went the latter route. >> > >> > >> > After 'much'-ish research, I decided I'd go for a Brother Color Laser >> > All-In-One (we require Fax, don't ask why ;-), since Brothers are >> > reputed to be excellently-supported on Linux. >> > >> > >> > Found the best price anywhere (the local Staples, believe it or not!) >> > and was about to plunk down my card to get it when I realized it was >> > going to be around $750 or so for the printer ($400-ish?) and genuine >> > Brother carts ($350-ish - sound similar to the HP prices? yeah.). >> > >> > >> > Woah! Ouch! Hey, I'm retired now, that's kinda a shock. Back up, >> > regroup, decide to try out the EcoTank idea, something I'd seriously >> > considered in the past. Picked an Epson (ET-4800, for like $269 at - >> > believe it or not - WalMart (I'm skipping the first purchase which I had >> > to return - no fax)), brought it home. >> > >> > >> > Interesting setup method. I downloaded the Epson printer setup app on >> > to my Android. All went very well until I tried to enter my WIFI >> > password. (First off, it doesn't look like the ET-4800 does 5GHz Wifi, >> > only 2.4, so I had to switch my phone over to the 2.4 side. This might >> > be an 'issue' with more than my 4800, so beware). I tried it 4 or 5 >> > times, never got it to work (and the app was very weird - in order to >> > re-enter your WiFI password you had to tell it you had done it, then it >> > would give you the 'enter password' dialog. Otherwise it was in an >> > infinite loop saying it couldn't see the printer yet, did you enter the >> > password correctly, did you do it right). >> > >> > Anyway, after the ink was 'charged', I went to the front panel and >> > connected to wifi (just fine, thank you very much, on the first try), >> > then suddenly the app saw it and all was well. >> > >> > My son has Apple stuff and was pretty much immediately able to print. >> > >> > I went to Epson and looked up Linux print support, downloaded the >> > appropriate (in my case) .deb file, installed it and the >> > epsonscan2-bundle, fired up my 'Printers' tool, and there it was. I >> > didn't even have to search/destroy um, I mean search/install. >> > >> > Select it, say print test page, immediate print success. >> > >> > >> > On my wife's Linux machine I tried running their 'epsonscan2' program >> > and was not impressed. It didn't find the scanner. So, I ran over to >> > XSane and simple-scan and both could see it with no problem. I used >> > XSane to scan in both BW and color, no problems. Oh, and it knew to let >> > me choose the ADF or the flatbed! >> > >> > At first I thought it didn't have extreme scan resolution, then I >> > fiddled in simple-scan and set it to 1200 - whoa! But very slow. >> > >> > (In the spirit of full disclosure, I'm having a weird problem getting >> > scanning to work on my computer, but it works perfectly on my wife's...) >> > >> > When I did all the above stuff with my HP (long ago in a galaxy far >> > away), it worked, but I seem to recall that getting the scanning to work >> > was a little more of an issue. >> > >> > >> > On the other hand, I have a much older Epson (from an even longer time >> > ago and an even further away galaxy!) that I did have issues with >> > finding and setting up, so it looks to me like Epson has improved a lot. >> > >> > >> > Haven't printed much yet, but so far so good. >> > >> > >> > All the above to say that Epson's Linux support worked quite well for >> > me this time. Linux is Linux Mint 20.2. >> > >> > Anybody want to buy an unhappy HP Color LaserJet MFP M281cdw? ;-) >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------- >> > PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Harold Hartley 17632 N. 5th place Phoenix, AZ 85022 wheelie...@ownmail.net --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
