Anyone with experience working with epson inkjet printers? BX525WD is a multifunction device (printer, copier and scanner), and has ethernet, USB and wifi connectivity.
Can I use it with CUPS? Do I need any special USE flags? I use the amd64 no-multilib profile. I am interested in its printing function in the first place. I looked at epson home site for drivers and it pointed to http://avasys.jp/eng/linux_driver/download/lsb/epson-inkjet/escp/ where one can find binary .rpm and .deb packages for the diver, and the source code as epson-inkjet-printer-workforce-635-nx625-series-1.0.1-1lsb3.2.src.rpm I downloaded the http://linux.avasys.jp/drivers/lsb/epson-inkjet/stable/RPMS/x86_64/epson-inkjet-printer-workforce-635-nx625-series-1.0.1-1lsb3.2.x86_64.rpm file and used rpm2tbz2 to get the file: epson-inkjet-printer-workforce-635-nx625-series-1.0.1-1lsb3.2.x86_64.tbz2 Among other files it contains a ppd file that seems appropriate for the printer in question: Epson-Stylus_Office_BX525WD_Series-epson-driver.ppd.gz I guess I could use that with CUPS, but to connect to the printer via ethernet, what option (protocol?) should I select? CUPS web interface (http://localhost:631/admin/) gives me those options: Local Printers: SCSI Printer HP Printer (HPLIP) Other Network Printers: AppSocket/HP JetDirect Internet Printing Protocol (http) Internet Printing Protocol (ipp) Internet Printing Protocol (https) LPD/LPR Host or Printer Windows Printer via SAMBA
