Help with driver for EPSON L210!

[Novichok]

1 year ago I installed Ubuntu 14.04 on a hard disk, printer worked (became audible clicks and hard drive died a few days after that I did not have larger hard drives, I could not buy, and I began to look for an axis running from the flash drive, more than any other I liked Porteus). I can show the printer in Linux Mint 17.1 Mate by Enriki x86.http://mintlinux.ru/forum/thread7623.html (Live in RAM)http://youtu.be/A38XFyvVkSY

[Novichok]

[cttan]

Hi Novichok,

What is the exact error you are getting?

I see that you are able to install the Epson L210 printer in Porteus. Are you on 32bit or 64bit Porteus?

Can you pls post the output from this command when the printer is connected?
lpinfo -v | grep usb:// | cut -d" " -f2 | head -n1

[Bogomips]

1 year ago I installed Ubuntu 14.04 on a hard disk, printer worked (became audible clicks and hard drive died a few days after that I did not have larger hard drives, I could not buy

While my h/d was giving up the ghost, managed to transfer the Kanotix system to two USBs (one fallback).

running from the flash drive, more than any other I liked Porteus

More than two years running from USB before was able to get new computer at knock-down price, being sold empty without o/s, and this was something like a year before Porteus had come on the scene.

Been a while since used CUPS, as new printer has no parallel printer socket, have to use Ghostscript and transfer to old m/c, using DSL to work the printer. Anyway have looked at 32-bit rpm: epson-inkjet-printer-201207w-1.0.0-1lsb3.2.i486.rpm from http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/op/st ... 2.i486.rpm(This is info which might be of use to anyone else who can help)

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Creating Slackware package:  /home/guest/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w-1.0.0lsb3.2-i486-1.txz
./
install/
install/slack-desc
opt/
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/watermark/
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/watermark/WEPCG09.EID
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/watermark/WEPCG08.EID
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/watermark/WEPCG07.EID
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/watermark/WEPCG06.EID
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/watermark/WEPCG05.EID
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/watermark/WEPCG04.EID
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/watermark/WEPCG03.EID
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/watermark/WEPCG02.EID
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/watermark/WEPCG01.EID
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/watermark/WEPCG00.EID
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/resource/
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/resource/Epson_201207w.MT.6.data
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/resource/Epson_201207w.MT.5.data
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/resource/Epson_201207w.MT.4.data
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/resource/Epson_201207w.MT.3.data
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/resource/Epson_201207w.MT.2.data
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/resource/Epson_201207w.MT.1.data
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/resource/Epson_201207w.1.data
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/ppds/
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/ppds/Epson/
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/ppds/Epson/Epson-L555_Series-epson-driver.ppd.gz
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/ppds/Epson/Epson-L550_Series-epson-driver.ppd.gz
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/ppds/Epson/Epson-L355_Series-epson-driver.ppd.gz
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/ppds/Epson/Epson-L350_Series-epson-driver.ppd.gz
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/ppds/Epson/Epson-L300_Series-epson-driver.ppd.gz
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/ppds/Epson/Epson-L210_Series-epson-driver.ppd.gz
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/ppds/Epson/Epson-L110_Series-epson-driver.ppd.gz
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/lib/
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/lib/libEpson_201207w.so.1.0.0
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/lib/libEpson_201207w.MT.so.1.0.0
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/doc/
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/doc/README
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/doc/Manual.txt
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/doc/COPYING.LIB
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/doc/COPYING.EPSON
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/doc/COPYING
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/doc/AUTHORS
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/cups/
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/cups/lib/
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/cups/lib/filter/
opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/cups/lib/filter/epson_inkjet_printer_filter

Slackware package /home/guest/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w-1.0.0lsb3.2-i486-1.txz created.

Installing to Fakeroot

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guest@porteus:~$ /sbin/installpkg -root eps epson-inkjet-printer-201207w-1.0.0lsb3.2-i486-1.txz 
...
Package epson-inkjet-printer-201207w-1.0.0lsb3.2-i486-1.txz installed.

Faced with such a situation I would try manuallly, running as root, using 32 bit as example:(Maybe you could try this)

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   rpm2xzm epson-inkjet-printer-201207w-1.0.0-1lsb3.2.i486.rpm
   activate epson-inkjet-printer-201207w-1.0.0-1lsb3.2.i486.xzm

2. Save downloaded PPD files in /usr/share/ppd, /usr/share/cups/model, or wherever your CUPS setup has its PPD directory. The PPD file does not need to be executable, but it should be world-readable and should have the file name extension ".ppd".

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   cp /opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/ppds/Epson/Epson-L210_Series-epson-driver.ppd.gz .
   
   gunzip Epson-L210_Series-epson-driver.ppd.gz 
   
   cp Epson-L210_Series-epson-driver.ppd /usr/share/cups/model   # May have to try other directories
   

3. Filter
   Some drivers are simply a filter into which generic bitmap output of Ghostscript is piped. This was one of the first solutions to make printer drivers without compiling them into Ghostscript. The filter executables are usually installed into the standard search path for programs (/usr/bin or /usr/local/bin).

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   guest@porteus:~$ file /home/guest/eps/opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/cups/lib/filter/epson_inkjet_printer_filter
   /home/guest/eps/opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/cups/lib/filter/epson_inkjet_printer_filter: ELF 32-bit LSB  executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), BuildID[sha1]=6c2aa8b42018de2e60da3757f897608e4e88f9c8, not stripped
   

   Copy executable over:

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   cp /opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/cups/lib/filter/epson_inkjet_printer_filter /usr/local/bin

4. Put Shared Object Files in Library Search Path:

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   cp /opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/lib/* /usr/local/lib   # Try /usr/lib as alternative

5. There remains one unknown here, which have not been able to fit into the scheme of things:

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   guest@porteus:~$ ls -sh eps/opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/resource
   total 1.5M
   1.3M Epson_201207w.1.data      28K Epson_201207w.MT.3.data  104K Epson_201207w.MT.6.data
    40K Epson_201207w.MT.1.data  4.0K Epson_201207w.MT.4.data
    32K Epson_201207w.MT.2.data  4.0K Epson_201207w.MT.5.data
   

   And

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   guest@porteus:~$ file /home/guest/eps/opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/resource/Epson_201207w.1.data
   /home/guest/eps/opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201207w/resource/Epson_201207w.1.data: MSVC .res
   

   which is somewhat indecipherable

[pramod7770]

From my experience and knowledge the PPD alone should have been sufficient.

Open Printing CUPS

2. Install a PPD file.

CUPS requires a PPD file to define how it will use the printer and driver (if any). PPD files come from several sources, be sure you get yours from the right place:

If you have a PostScript printer
Obtain the PPD file from your printer's vendor. Several vendors post PPDs on the OpenPrinting web site. Go to your printer's entry and look whether a driver named "Postscript-<vendor name>" is available. Take the PPD from this driver entry. Other sources are the printer manuafacturer's web site (look for a package for Linux or Unix, Windows and Mac packages are often not simple to extract on a Linux machine) on the driver CDs which come with the Epson L220 driver, or on a Windows or Mac OS X partition if the printer was already set up on that operating system. You do not need a driver (Step 1), just the PPD file.

If you do not have a PostScript printer
You will need a driver. The OpenPrinting database can help yopu find a suitable one. Several drivers can be downloaded there as a ready-to-use binary package for all LSB-compliant distributions. In any case, you find links to driver project pages. If the driver does not ship a PPD file, use the PPD file offered to you by the OpenPrinting database. Follow the "download PPD" link in such a case. Save downloaded PPD files in /usr/share/ppd, /usr/share/cups/model, or wherever your CUPS setup has its PPD directory. The PPD file does not need to be executable, but it should be world-readable and should have the file name extension ".ppd".

thanks explained very well

[francois]

This is not a thread to a linux driver.