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Kodak ESP 3250

Posted: 24 Jul 2015, 05:00
by Jack
Someone gave me a Kodak ESP 3250 printer. Here is the driver "c2esp-27.tar.gz" can I get help adding the driver? Here the link where I found it.
http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Kod ... k-ESP_3250
I know it is not the best printer

Re: Kodak ESP 3250

Posted: 24 Jul 2015, 18:20
by francois
Hello jack. Good to know that you found a printer. :)

Please tell me are you on 32 or 64 bit architecture?

I had a look at it. For our cups version you are better with the 2.6 version, as 2.7 has no ppd:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cupsdri ... z/download

1.0 Download tmp folder
2.0 extract to tmp folder
3.0 the file will be /tmp/c2esp26/ppd/Kodak_ESP_32xx_Series.ppd

Install it as explained in our discussion in a previous post on printer.

Cheers. :beer:

Re: Kodak ESP 3250

Posted: 24 Jul 2015, 19:55
by sunnysideofthesun
What do you think, would any of these work when converted with deb2xzm if all lib dependencies are present in system?
http://pkgs.org/search/?query=printer-d ... type=smart

Re: Kodak ESP 3250

Posted: 25 Jul 2015, 03:33
by francois
I did not found any ppd in the package printer-driver-c2esp_24-2_amd64.deb. It would be worth deb2xzm them and then run it in parallel with printing.xzm to see if it could work. The 27 version, I would personally not try.

Re: Kodak ESP 3250

Posted: 28 Jul 2015, 23:22
by francois
@jack:

And how is your printer doing?

My instructions are really easy to implement. Do you want the ppd? I can post it.

Re: Kodak ESP 3250

Posted: 28 Jul 2015, 23:35
by Jack
It is not printing. I must be to old or dumb to get it to work. Sorry but I did try. :wall:

Re: Kodak ESP 3250

Posted: 29 Jul 2015, 15:28
by francois
Jack please just relax. Please tell us exactly what you have done. 8)

Re: Kodak ESP 3250

Posted: 29 Jul 2015, 20:41
by Jack
francois wrote:Jack please just relax. Please tell us exactly what you have done. 8)
I don't remember for sure.

How can I use "c2esp26.tar.gz" not for sure? I can see the "Kodak_ESP_32xx_Series.ppd" I need when I expand it. Can you help me?

Re: Kodak ESP 3250

Posted: 30 Jul 2015, 00:20
by francois
You just have to extract the tar.gz with the archive manager and then use the ppd. What desktop do you use?

Re: Kodak ESP 3250

Posted: 30 Jul 2015, 00:40
by Jack
I use Mate and tell me where to put the ppd file to make it work.

Re: Kodak ESP 3250

Posted: 30 Jul 2015, 02:32
by sunnysideofthesun
Are you afraid to put it in the wrong place? Do folders of your Porteus work only for input?
If you don't afraid of experiments, then read every post of thread entitled Which location to put ppd files (printer driver) and see which post suits your needs
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... er-305764/
If none work, francois will come and tell you where.

Re: Kodak ESP 3250

Posted: 30 Jul 2015, 03:01
by francois
Install the ppd in /etc/CUPS/model/Kodak.

Then porteus menu > system > printing
will lead you to the system-config-printer gui.
2) in the menu select server > new
3) your printer should appear if it is usb connected, select it and give it a name (no spaces).
Select ppd method to install printer and get into folder tree where you have installed the pod (/etc/CUPS/model/Kodak).

Re: Kodak ESP 3250

Posted: 30 Jul 2015, 03:46
by Jack
I did what you said to do. When I set it up it told me to put a check mark to Enable it so I did and a 15 sec later it uncheck it self. Do you know what might be wrong?

Update:

The check mark stays on now. It show I have ink but it don't print. When I get paid I will get some ink.

Re: Kodak ESP 3250

Posted: 30 Jul 2015, 22:31
by francois
Do you mean that you tried the print test page and that it tried to print but that the ink was dry?

Re: Kodak ESP 3250

Posted: 31 Jul 2015, 00:29
by Jack
Yes, It look like it needs black ink.