Re: CUPS Driver for Epson Stylus NX420 printer?

2011-05-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 21 May 2011, Lisi wrote: [snip] Personally, I am just grateful that some companies (e.g. HP and Samsung) _do_ have good drivers for most of their printers. Lisi Brother should be added to that list. I recently bought an HL5240L laser printer and their linux driver works perfectly.

Re: CUPS Driver for Epson Stylus NX420 printer?

2011-05-21 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 20. 05. 2011 19:43:21 je dave boland napisal(a): This is a little off your topic, but I have an Epson (C88) as well, and wish that CUPS/driver supported ink levels, head cleaning and alignment, and duplexing (the Epson Windows driver supports this with 2-pass printing). Any reason

Re: CUPS Driver for Epson Stylus NX420 printer?

2011-05-21 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 21 May 2011 09:54:49 +0200, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 20. 05. 2011 19:43:21 je dave boland napisal(a): This is a little off your topic, but I have an Epson (C88) as well, and wish that CUPS/driver supported ink levels, head cleaning and alignment, and duplexing (the Epson Windows

Re: CUPS Driver for Epson Stylus NX420 printer?

2011-05-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/21/2011 02:54 AM, Klistvud wrote: [snip] How's this for a reason: Epson not giving a rodent's undertail for their non-Windows users? Surprising, since Epson printers used to be well-supported by CUPS. -- Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and

Re: CUPS Driver for Epson Stylus NX420 printer?

2011-05-21 Thread Rick Thomas
Actually, the evidence in this particular case is pretty optimistic: 1) I was able to find a (binary i386/AMD64 only) driver at OpenPrinting.Org with only a little bit of google-ing. 2) When I whined about not being able to use i386 binaries on my ARM machine, Camaleón (thanks!) found a

Re: CUPS Driver for Epson Stylus NX420 printer?

2011-05-21 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 21 May 2011 19:26:26 Rick Thomas wrote: If you really support open source software, put your time and talent   where your mouth is.  Help make it better! If you have the tenacity and drive, by not buying hw that has no Linux support and telling the company concerned what you have

Re: CUPS Driver for Epson Stylus NX420 printer?

2011-05-20 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 04:50:45PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: Anybody know what driver I should be using in Debian Squeeze for my new Epson Stylus NX420 printer? There's no NX420 in the list of drivers offered by the CUPS web interface. It's unsupported by free software at the moment. The

Re: CUPS Driver for Epson Stylus NX420 printer?

2011-05-20 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 19 May 2011 16:50:45 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: Anybody know what driver I should be using in Debian Squeeze for my new Epson Stylus NX420 printer? There's no NX420 in the list of drivers offered by the CUPS web interface. Your printer is listed here:

Re: CUPS Driver for Epson Stylus NX420 printer?

2011-05-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 20, 2011, at 12:48 AM, Roger Leigh wrote: On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 04:50:45PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: Anybody know what driver I should be using in Debian Squeeze for my new Epson Stylus NX420 printer? There's no NX420 in the list of drivers offered by the CUPS web interface. It's

Re: CUPS Driver for Epson Stylus NX420 printer?

2011-05-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 20, 2011, at 3:12 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 19 May 2011 16:50:45 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: Anybody know what driver I should be using in Debian Squeeze for my new Epson Stylus NX420 printer? There's no NX420 in the list of drivers offered by the CUPS web interface. Your printer

Re: CUPS Driver for Epson Stylus NX420 printer?

2011-05-20 Thread dave boland
Thanks, Roger! I'm glad to know that there's something in the works. I tried the NX415 driver from Debian Squeeze and got a couple of lines at the top of a page and lots of blank paper after that. I googled a bit and came up with a website from openprinting.org that had proprietary

Re: CUPS Driver for Epson Stylus NX420 printer?

2011-05-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 20, 2011, at 10:18 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: if I export the printer via CUPS from the Toshiba to the OpenRD and try to use it to print that way from the OpenRD, the driver on the Toshiba dies with a segfault. If anybody wants to try and help me debug the problem, here's the

Re: CUPS Driver for Epson Stylus NX420 printer?

2011-05-20 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 20 May 2011 10:33:45 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: On May 20, 2011, at 3:12 AM, Camaleón wrote: Your printer is listed here: http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Epson/Epson-NX420_Series So you can try with the Avasys driver (epson-nx420), at least for printing. If you also want to

Re: CUPS Driver for Epson Stylus NX420 printer?

2011-05-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 20, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Camaleón wrote: There is a source rpm package, but I'm not sure if this can help you to rebuild the package for your architecture :-? Interesting. I'll have a look at it if I get some time. I wonder if there's a source plain-and-simple tar-ball in the same

CUPS Driver for Epson Stylus NX420 printer?

2011-05-19 Thread Rick Thomas
Anybody know what driver I should be using in Debian Squeeze for my new Epson Stylus NX420 printer? There's no NX420 in the list of drivers offered by the CUPS web interface. Thanks for any help! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of