Epson Aculaser linux drivers
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006Epsons’ support pages for linux are pretty useless if you’re actually trying to find out how to install their printers.
Luckily there is a company called avasys who have created drivers for the following printers:
AcuLaser 2600 EPL-5800 EPL-5900 EPL-6100 EPL-6200 EPL-N2050 EPL-N2050+ EPL-N2120 EPL-N2500 EPL-N2550 EPL-N2750 EPL-N3000
EPL-N7000
Color Laser Printer AcuLaser C1100 AcuLaser C1900 AcuLaser C2000
AcuLaser C2600 AcuLaser C3000 AcuLaser C4000
AcuLaser C4100 AcuLaser C4200 AcuLaser C8500
AcuLaser C8600 AcuLaser C900 AcuLaser C9100
go here for the drivers: http://www.avasys.jp/english/linux_e/dl_laser.html
If you’re going to compile them from source you need build-esentials and libcupsys2-dev (debian/ubuntu) - basically the normal compile tools and cups development package.
Make sure you restart your cups deamon via /etc/init.d/cups restart having done your ./configure , make, make install . I have compiled the AcuLaster C1100 driver and it’s currently working perfectly under Ubuntu 6.06 (2.6.15-26-amd64-k8)
UPDATE 27/01/2007: This driver doesn’t work with version of cups (linux printing deamon) that is now in ubuntu edgy. to downgrade compile this package. http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cupsys/cupsys_1.2.4.orig.tar.gz
warning: If you had problems with printers in dapper and they were fixed in edgy you may find those problems re-appearing if you downgrade.