Epson Sytlus Pro 4900 on Gentoo

grooveman · Veteran Joined: 24 Feb 2003 Posts: 1217

Hello.

I'm trying to install this printer on my gentoo system. Unforntunately, cups out of the box, and the package net-print/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr do not have the driver for this. I had to download it from here:
http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/support/supDetail.jsp?oid=171983&infoType=Downloads&platform=OSF_O_LINUX

Of course, they only have .rpm and .deb packages. I do have rpm installed on my system for other purposes, so I chose that. I downloaded the epson-stylus-pro-4900-series-1.0.0-1lsb3.2.x86_64.rpm version (my system is amd64). I installed it, and the system made no complaints.

However, the jobs I send to it die immediately. After finding nothing that made sense to me in the logs, I turned on debugging. Unfortunately, that didn't help. It seems to complain about execv not being found (I think that is the first error). I have googled this, but didn't find anything useful. Perhaps it has to do with the "org.freedesktop.ColorManager was not provided by any .service files" lines... not sure.

The log is huge... but here it is, with just one, simple print. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks.

http://pastebin.com/fZbHnxvC
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kikko · Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2015 12:32 am Post subject:

Hi grooveman
according to some opinion, your Epson Stylus Pro 4900 should work fine with the "4880" driver included in gutenprint
Imho it's worth to give it a try

Regards

grooveman · Veteran Joined: 24 Feb 2003 Posts: 1217

Thanks Kikko,

Hmm... it appears that I didn't even have Gutenprint installed. Weird. Fixed that.

So there is a 4900 printer driver listed, but again, it does not work.

I tried the 4880, and that does seem to yield a print... no idea what I'm losing by using the wrong driver, though...
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