Bug 1765324 - Current release does not support the printer epson WF-C5710
Summary: Current release does not support the printer epson WF-C5710
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: epson-inkjet-printer-escpr
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Susi Lehtola
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-10-24 20:05 UTC by Pierre-YvesChibon
Modified: 2020-09-18 10:53 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2019-10-24 20:24:13 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Pierre-YvesChibon 2019-10-24 20:05:00 UTC
Description of problem:
It looks like the current release of epson-inkjet-printer-escpr does not support the printer WF-C5710.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
epson-inkjet-printer-escpr-1.6.41-1.1lsb3.2.fc30.x86_64


How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -ql epson-inkjet-printer-escpr | grep 5710
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3.

Actual results:
returns no driver

Expected results:
Seeing the driver file

Additional info:
Searching http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/ for "WF-C5710" on linux, I am pointed to a ESC/P-R Driver 2 version 1.1.2 which, if I explode the rpm or source rpm, seems to include the desired driver in the file named: `Epson-WF-C5710_Series-epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2.ppd`.

Comment 1 Susi Lehtola 2019-10-24 20:24:13 UTC
Of course this driver doesn't support printers that it doesn't support.
What you want is another driver, which isn't packaged in Fedora.

Comment 2 Pierre-YvesChibon 2019-10-24 20:33:41 UTC
Which other driver would this be? epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2?

Comment 3 Pierre-YvesChibon 2019-10-24 20:42:44 UTC
I also would like to ask how could I see that this is not the right package?

The description in the spec file points to http://avasys.jp/english/linux_e/ which according to google translate raises a page-not-found error.

Comment 4 Susi Lehtola 2019-10-24 21:11:54 UTC
Yes. It's a wholly different package that does not support any of the printers supported by epson-inkjet-printer-escpr.

Comment 5 Susi Lehtola 2020-09-18 10:53:10 UTC
Since BZ #1531948 describes that the original open source escpr driver works for the ET-3700 printer with a PPD files adopted from the escpr2 package, I have now packaged the whole set of the escpr2 drivers by replacing the newer binary-only driver with the older open source driver; please see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2.

The open source driver works at least with ET-3700 printers; it would be interesting to see if it also works with your WF-C5710 printer.


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