Hi, I'm a user of OpenBSD on a couple of my machines and I'd like to use my Epson Expression Home XP 342 printer directly with them. The printer is wireless and so doesn't need a USB driver.
I found this thread[1] on the list from a long time ago (January 2014) where someone helped Maurice Mcarthy get his Epson Stylus SX205 working by providing a port called print/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr. It seems to be an OpenBSD version of the FreeBSD epson-inkjet-printer-escpr port[2] but I can't find any reference to this port in the OpenBSD ports CVS repository so I wonder was it something somebody created privately or was it removed for a reason? My printer is supported by version 1.6.9 of the Epson ESC/P-R driver onwards and as far as I can tell is not supported by Gutenprint yet. I would be happy to compile the driver from source myself but I was unable to do this and I would rather use a port to make it easy to install and remove. Given some directions I might also be able to use the FreeBSD port if it's a simple enough process to convert it. Please could you tell me if this port is still available for recent versions of OpenBSD? If not perhaps the older version might be updated for OpenBSD 6.4 and recent printers? Regards Ed Gray (e.mask....@gmail.com) OpenBSD 6.4 user Links: 1: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=139092148214440&w=2 2: https://www.freshports.org/print/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr/
