[wellylug] Epson printer under Linux

[Simon Antliff]

On 8/11/05, John Durham <> wrote:
> My old printer died today, so I bought an Epson C45. The drivers
> supplied were Windows, but I need it to run from the Linux system. My
> online searces suggest that the driver for a C42UX will work.
> 
> After an hour of trying to find it (driverguide was no help), every page
> seeming to offer help just digresses onto something else unhelpful.
> 
> Does anyone have a copy of the driver that could be emailed?

My google-fu is not strong with printers, but I turned up a couple of things:

- You can use any C40/C42 driver.  The C45 is functionally identical.
- www.linuxprinting.org has lots of drivers and help for different printers
- If yours is a Epson Stylus C45, and the above info is correct, then
you should be able to use the gimp-print drivers:

http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Epson-Stylus_C42UX
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_driver.cgi?driver=gimp-print&fromprinter=Epson-Stylus_C42UX


Hope this helps.

Simon.