Bug 177329
| Summary: | no drivers for epson R2400 | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz> |
| Component: | cups | Assignee: | Tim Waugh <twaugh> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 4 | CC: | mnewsome |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | fc6 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2006-01-10 09:56:37 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 150223 | ||
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Description
Benjamin Kosnik
2006-01-09 18:12:05 UTC
Hmm, does this have a proprietary component? The EAPL has language that seems to indicate it does. We can't ship proprietary bits. I'm not quite sure. There is an epson NDA, along with the GPL text. %rpm -ql pips-spr2400-cups-2.6.4-1 /etc/ekpdrc /usr/bin/ekpstm /usr/lib/cups/backend/ekplp /usr/lib/cups/filter/pipstoprinter /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertopips /usr/lib/libspr2400.so /usr/lib/libspr2400R1.so /usr/lib/libspr2400R2.so /usr/local/EPKowa/SPR2400/cupsopt.csv /usr/local/EPKowa/SPR2400/inst-rc_d.sh /usr/local/EPKowa/SPR2400/libspr2400.readme /usr/local/EPKowa/SPR2400/rc.d/ekpd.debian /usr/local/EPKowa/SPR2400/rc.d/ekpd.local.slackware /usr/local/EPKowa/SPR2400/rc.d/ekpd.redhat /usr/local/EPKowa/SPR2400/rc.d/ekpd.slackware /usr/local/EPKowa/SPR2400/readme-spr2400-cups /usr/local/EPKowa/SPR2400/scripts/en.lc /usr/local/EPKowa/SPR2400/scripts/inst-cups-post.sh /usr/local/EPKowa/SPR2400/scripts/ja.lc /usr/local/EPKowa/SPR2400/scripts/setup-cups.sh /usr/local/EPKowa/printer/ekpd /usr/local/EPKowa/printer/paper_list.csv /usr/share/cups/model/ekspr2400.ppd /usr/share/doc/pips-spr2400-cups-2.6.4 /usr/share/doc/pips-spr2400-cups-2.6.4/AUTHORS /usr/share/doc/pips-spr2400-cups-2.6.4/COPYING /usr/share/doc/pips-spr2400-cups-2.6.4/COPYING.LIB /usr/share/doc/pips-spr2400-cups-2.6.4/ChangeLog /usr/share/doc/pips-spr2400-cups-2.6.4/EAPL.en.txt /usr/share/doc/pips-spr2400-cups-2.6.4/EAPL.ja.txt /usr/share/doc/pips-spr2400-cups-2.6.4/README /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/pips-spr2400.mo /usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/pips-spr2400.mo /usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/pips-spr2400.mo /usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/pips-spr2400.mo /usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/pips-spr2400.mo /usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/pips-spr2400.mo /usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/pips-spr2400.mo /usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/pips-spr2400.mo /usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/pips-spr2400.mo /usr/share/locale/zh/LC_MESSAGES/pips-spr2400.mo /usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/pips-spr2400.mo /var/ekpd/ekplp0 Fedora/Red Hat seem to ship with a lot of existing Epson drivers, but not this one. Would this one have different legal standing than the included ones? Anyway. I see some messages in the gimp-print/gutenprint ChangeLog about adding support for this printer, in google for "gimp print r2400 epson". Maybe this is separate from the avasys driver? When FC5test2 comes out I'll give it a spin and see what happens. -benjamin Well, although I'd hope to have gutenprint included, time is getting very tight for that. Deferring this particular bug until after gutenprint is in. This is an update, and status change for this bug. On FC6, with gutenprint-5.0.0-0.15.fc6 gutenprint-cups-5.0.0-0.15.fc6 gutenprint-ppds-es-5.0.0-0.15.fc6 I can get the free drivers to print. There are some limitations, and advantages. Limitations: 1) "Resolution" can be set from Auto up to 1440 x 1440. Other resolutions, such as 1440 x 2880 variants, cannot be used. 2) Other parts of the driver, such as "Adjust dot size" and others, do not really work. Should they be grayed out? 3) error checking for setting printing options is pretty weak: you can set them, but then the printer is turned off on the CUPS page, and when you start/stop it, everything is fine. However, printing instantly gets stopped when spooled. It would be nice to have options that don't work alert you to this fact when you're setting them. Advantages: 1) registration, color fidelity, and resolution are much improved over the proprietary driver. In particular, Super B3/A3+ images have about 5-10mm more imageable area than other driver, especially on sides when portrait. Banding issues with proprietary driver not present in gutenberg version. Can image much finer lines (to .25pt) with gutenberg driver set to 1440. 2) more paper size selections I consider this bug fixed in FC6. in addition, some postscript clipping issues with proprietary driver fixed with the gutenprint drivers. The gutenprint drivers are really nice. |