I have searched through this forum for advice on how to install an Epson Workforce 545. It is a wireless printer that is not discovered by CUPS.
I have tried the various downloads, Guteneprint, from the EPSON site and tried to manually install the printer using CUPS, but nothing has worked.
Any way to get the printer detected? That seems to be the first problem to overcome. I set the printer to have a static IP address and the printer name is EPSON61B943. It is on line when I try to use CUPS to find it. I can print to it wirelessly from other computers (UBUNTU based).
Here is some information on my system:
-Version-
Kernel : Linux 3.14.12-rt9 (i686)
Version : #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Tue Aug 12 22:31:08 MDT 2014
C Library : GNU C Library version 2.15 (stable)
Distribution : Studio 13.37 - v2
-Current Session-
Computer Name : leetV2
User Name : root (root)
Home Directory : /root
Desktop Environment : Unknown (Window Manager: Openbox)
Trouble Installing Epson Workforce 545
Re: Trouble Installing Epson Workforce 545
Have you read "How to Install Your Printer/Scanner in Puppy" at the top of this section? It has a link to an Epson printer driver that supports your Workforce 545.windeguy wrote:I have searched through this forum for advice on how to install an Epson Workforce 545.
The HowTo also has suggestions for dealing with this situation. Read "Things to Know". Are you running a firewall?It is a wireless printer that is not discovered by CUPS.
What Puppy version is this? If it's not one of the standard releases, I cannot comment on its printing capabilities.
Re: Trouble Installing Epson Workforce 545
cat /etc/DISTRO_SPECS shows:rcrsn51 wrote:Have you read "How to Install Your Printer/Scanner in Puppy" at the top of this section? It has a link to an Epson printer driver that supports your Workforce 545.windeguy wrote:I have searched through this forum for advice on how to install an Epson Workforce 545.
Yes I have read that. And I have found the driver, downloaded and installed the ".deb" package from this site without success:
http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/du/02 ... 33b413343b
The HowTo also has suggestions for dealing with this situation. Read "Things to Know". Are you running a firewall?It is a wireless printer that is not discovered by CUPS.
Firewall is off.
I will now try to look at "Things to Know".
What Puppy version is this? If it's not one of the standard releases, I cannot comment on its printer situation.
#Prefix for some filenames: exs: slackosave.2fs, slacko-5.7.0.sfs
DISTRO_FILE_PREFIX='leet'
#The version of the distro whose binary packages were used to build this distro:
DISTRO_COMPAT_VERSION='14.0'
#the kernel pet package used:
DISTRO_KERNEL_PET='linux_kernel-3.14.12-v2.pet'
DISTRO_TARGETARCH='x86'
DISTRO_XORG_AUTO='yes'
#32-byte alpha-numeric ID-string appended to vmlinuz, puppy_slacko_5.7.0.sfs, zdrv_slacko_5.7.0.sfs and devx.sfs:
DISTRO_IDSTRING='s140309082357ZZZZ5.7.0XXXXXXXXXX'
#Puppy default filenames...
#Note, the 'SFS' files below are what the 'init' script in initrd.gz searches for,
#for the partition, path and actual files loaded, see PUPSFS and ZDRV in /etc/rc.d/PUPSTATE
DISTRO_PUPPYSFS='v2.sfs'
DISTRO_ZDRVSFS='zdrv_1337.sfs'
DISTRO_PUPPYDATE='Aug 2014'
It's a spin-off. I can only comment on Puppy versions that I have tested myself and Studio 1317 is not one of them.windeguy wrote:I suspect it is a spin-off, but I have no way to know that. The overall name is Studio 1337 Rev 2.
"Things to Know" is the first section of "How to Install your Printer".
I would recommend that you get a standard recent Puppy and test your printer with it.
Epson Workforce 545
If you're running a wireless router and your Epson Workforce has an ethernet port and you can run a cat 5 cable to the printer you will get a lot more range from the wireless router than you will get from the printer. It should be easier to set up because on mine you can look at the printers network settings on the printers lcd panel and just put that information into cups with lpd://xxx.xxx.x.xPassthru the x's being the network settings of the printer.
Thanks
Bird Dog
Thanks
Bird Dog
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Re: Epson Workforce 545
The laptop and printer are in the same room. I just set up an Android tablet to print from it. No issues with WiFi Strength, but I appreciate the point you make.Bird Dog wrote:If you're running a wireless router and your Epson Workforce has an ethernet port and you can run a cat 5 cable to the printer you will get a lot more range from the wireless router than you will get from the printer. It should be easier to set up because on mine you can look at the printers network settings on the printers lcd panel and just put that information into cups with lpd://xxx.xxx.x.xPassthru the x's being the network settings of the printer.
Thanks
Bird Dog
I did try the ldp approach including the one you just mentioned. No luck on that. I think the correct format is
lpd://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:515/PASSTHRU
But that did not work either.
Last edited by windeguy on Sun 01 Feb 2015, 00:35, edited 2 times in total.
OK. Yes I did read through and try to do what was recommended in my situation in Things to Know.rcrsn51 wrote:It's a spin-off. I can only comment on Puppy versions that I have tested myself and Studio 1317 is not one of them.windeguy wrote:I suspect it is a spin-off, but I have no way to know that. The overall name is Studio 1337 Rev 2.
"Things to Know" is the first section of "How to Install your Printer".
I would recommend that you get a standard recent Puppy and test your printer with it.
I am getting a new hard drive. At that time I will check a "standard" install and see what might differ from what is installed in 1337. The reason that 1337 is of interest to me is that it has a real time kernel which is useful for music applications that I run.