Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 177329
no drivers for epson R2400
Last modified: 2013-08-09 01:47:37 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc3 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: The Epson R2400, and I suspect the other inkject printers/plotters in this family as well, can be made to work with FC4+. As it stands, on FC4, if you plug in this printer via USB eggcups comes up, and says: You have plugged in an Epson R2400, but we can't find drivers for it. Please select from the following: blah blah blah. However, there are drivers for this printer. See: http://www.avasys.jp/english/linux_e/dl_ink.html This package, once downloaded and installed manuall via: rpm -i pips-spr2400-cups-2.6.4-1.i386.rpm /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p spr2400 -E -v ekplp:/var/ekpd/ekplp0 -m ekspr2400.ppd works perfectly: the driver supports sizes up to A3+. This is a high-res photo/plotter imaging device. It has a lot of artistic and scientific uses... it would be nice if it was supported in FC5 out of the box. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): cpus-1.1.23-15.3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Plug in printer. 2. 3. Actual Results: "Driver not found" Expected Results: You have plugged in an Epson R2400 and eggcups configured it for you. Additional info:
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.