Created attachment 1377942 [details] 0001-Add-PPD-file-for-Epson-ET-3700-EcoTank-printer.patch Upstream does not yet provide a PPD for the ET-3700 in the official espcr tarball. Instead, it provides this in a fork, named "espcr2". Although GPL licensed, espcr2 contains some object files with missing source code. Luckily, most PPD files will work as expected with the open-source espcr. I have the ET-3700, and was able to make it work with the espcr package in Fedora. I am including a tested, git-formatted patch to add this to the espcr package in Fedora. I hope we can add support for this, as the changes are fairly minimal.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 28 development cycle. Changing version to '28'.
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Adding individual PPD files from a different source did not seem like the right solution, which is why this bug was never solved. I have, however, now packaged the whole set of the escpr2 drivers with the hack you describe here; please see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2. I've been able to test it with a new ET-3700 and it seems to work, indeed!