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I installed “epson-inkjet-printer-escpr” via the AUR. Solved by @swab148. Thank you to everyone for answering! ❤️
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Hi guys, I need some help with my printer, an Epson Ecotank ET-7750. I installed printer support during the installation, both normal CPUS and the HP stuff. But my printer isn’t recognised by the system automatically. If I try to add it with the tools in KDE Plasma or CPUS, it doesn’t recognise the driver correctly, it always wants to make it into a dot matrix printer. If I give it the commands to print, it does print when I set it as a dot matrix printer. But the bitmap is always a garbled mess. Basically it says in plain text “bitmap start” and then prints out meaningless symbols as if you were to take a picture and load it into a text editor. I came from PopOS 22.4 LTS and then I installed cachy this year. The printer did work perfectly with PopOS and they also use cups for printing. Am I missing a package? Can you guys help me please?
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gutenprintpackage might have the driver you need. Otherwise, the AUR is your best option.Just be carefully with the AUR right now No hate to the AUR but a load of old packages got compromised so do some research before installing a package.
Sadly gutenprint does not support the ET-7750. :(
If you needed another inkjet, gutenprint drivers are good enough to find one on their list.