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mattia
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 Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 6:00 pm Post subject: [TIP] Epson printers with pipslite - DX9400F |
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After fiddling around a whole day with the damn pipslite drivers, i've managed to get them finally working on my DX9400F.
They actually should work the same way on all other supported models.
First get your pipslite tar.gz from here:
http://www.avasys.jp/english/linux_e/dl_spc.html
Make sure you download the first one, for cups (even if I think that the tar.gz are not different)
Make sure you have gtk+ ver. 1 installed, you'll need that later.
Unpack the tar.gz and enter the newly created directory.
Run | Code: | | ./configure --prefix=/usr |
as root run | Code: | | make && make install |
And then the important step:
Copy the files in the folder /usr/lib/cups/filter
to /usr/libexec/cups/filter
| Code: | | cp /usr/lib/cups/filter/* /usr/libexec/cups/filter |
You might need to create the directory beforehand.
| Code: | | mkdir /usr/libexec/cups && mkdir /usr/libexec/cups/filter |
For some reason the cups filters are not installed into the correct directory, and printing fails, claiming that cups can't find rastertopips
Do not delete anything in the /usr/lib/cups/ directory, otherwise it won't work again, and log something like [JOB***] (/usr/libexec/cups/rastertopips) killed. Exited with status 8.
To be able to run the printer properly, we need to run the ekpd daemon first. Pipslite comes with a set of start scripts but i prefer to use this gentoo-style one:
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#!/sbin/runscript
start() {
ebegin "Starting ekpd"
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --background --exec /usr/lib/pipslite/ekpd
eend $?
}
stop() {
ebegin "Stopping ekpd"
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --exec /usr/lib/pipslite/ekpd
eend $?
}
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just copy the code into the file created with
| Code: | | nano -w /etc/init.d/ekpd |
Give the script the correct permissions
| Code: | | chmod 0755 /etc/init.d/ekpd |
and add it to the default runlevel.
| Code: | | rc-update add ekpd default |
Start the script
| Code: | | rc-config start ekpd |
or
| Code: | | /etc/init.d/ekpd start |
Now create the correct ppd file for your printer. Plug it in (if you didn't already) and run pipslite-install.
It should find your printer and create a ppd file in /usr/share/cups/model
It won't work if ekpd is not running!
Now open http://localhost:631 and insert a new printer, using the newly created ppd file (usually the first in the list).
It could still be, that cups complains about the ppd file, like ImageableArea missing or similar. It helped to change all the commas in the PageSize, PageRegion, ImageableArea, PaperDimensions and Fonts block into dots, editing the ppd file.
Happy printing!
P.s.: There is a howto at the gentoo-wiki for setting up the scanner with iscan. It's straightforward. Just make sure to unplug eventual USB video devices before running sane-find-scanner, or it won't find the scanner. |
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alet_roux
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| Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 1:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks mattia for the detailed description. I've written an ebuild for it, and submitted it to bugzilla. |
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claudio
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