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claudio
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 Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 10:20 am Post subject: TIP: Epson printers / scanners with pipslite and iscan |
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This is a Quicktip wich is based on the very good tip of mattia in https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-650480.html. It was posted at 2008-01-23 and now some small things have been changed. So I copied his posting and modified it a bit. I also removed some steps wich were not needed for my Gentoo 2008.0 installation.
My new Epson Stylus SX200 printer / scanner works now (2008-11) with the latest gentoo kernel (2.6.27), Cups 1.3.8-r2 and Udev 130-r2.
1) Printer part
First get your pipslite tar.gz from here:
| Code: | | http://www.avasys.jp/english/linux_e/dl_spc.html |
I used pipslite_1.2.0-1.tar.gz for my installation.
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
make |
as root run
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 |
To be able to run the printer properly, we need to run the pipslited daemon first. Pipslite comes with a set of start scripts but i prefer to use this gentoo-style one:
| Code: | #!/sbin/runscript
start() {
ebegin "Starting pipslited"
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --background --exec /usr/lib/pipslite/pipslited
eend $?
}
stop() {
ebegin "Stopping pipslited"
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --exec /usr/lib/pipslite/pipslited
eend $?
} |
just copy the code into the file created with
| Code: | | nano -w /etc/init.d/pipslited |
Add it to the default runlevel:
| Code: | | rc-update add pipslited default |
Start the script:
| Code: | | /etc/init.d/pipslited start |
Now run the setup script:
| Code: | | /usr/lib/pipslite/scripts/setup-cups.sh |
Here you get to a pipslite "magic point": you need a special path for the install utility!
| Code: | mkdir /usr/var
mkdir /usr/var/cache
mkdir /usr/var/cache/pipslite |
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 pipslited 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).
Happy printing!
2) Scanner part
The scanner worked out of the box simply by running
At this time iscan-2.11.0 is in portage and it worked also for the SX200 - wich is newer than the iscan version 2.11.0. Well done, Avasys! |
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