Epson Stylus C82N - Network Printer

McManus

Hello, my old printer (a POS Lexmark 5700) just died, and I am looking into buying a new printer. Does anyone know if the Epson Stylus C82N works pretty well with Linux? It claims to have networking support with Linux, Novell, Unix, Windows, OS X, etc. but I have no idea how valid these claims are. Does anyone have any experience with one? I know the normal C82 works just fine with Linux, but I'd like to have a network printer. Let me know what y'all think! Thanks!
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Lord_Orion · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2003 11:48 am Post subject:

You can try to have a response here :

http://www.linuxprinting.org

If not you can find here a lot of printers and their compatibility

McManus · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2003 4:56 pm Post subject:

Ummm... I've already looked there, and like I said,

Lord_Orion · Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2003 2:36 am Post subject:

I can't answer your for the C82N, but I can speek about the Epson 5900 that I use at work. She has an ethernet interface. And it works great.

but I had first to use windows and epson utilities to configure the ethernet interface (give her an IP, because originally she worked not with TCP/IP, but with NetBEUI.

5 minutes on windows to fix it and after that I could install cups and make her working with it.

So for your printer I think that, it has great chances to work. you will in first step to have to boot under windows to be able to switch your printer on TCP/IP protocol, than giver her an IP, reboot on linux... Install cups and the drivers, ...

after that I started kdeprint as root and configured the printer trough kde printer, so if you feel that you can set it up manually you can do it... I didn't so I chose to set it up trough kdeprint.

Good luck... hope it answered your question a little...