[wellylug] Epson printer under Linux

[Cliff Pratt]

Simon Antliff wrote:
> 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
> 
I second gimp-print. It worked with cups and my C82.

Cheers,

Cliff