Sunday, May 3, 2009

howto: Installing printer through CUPS (gutenprint set of drivers) [Epson Stylus T10,T20]

After doing some research, I just got my printer working. It was not that easy to configure it, because in CUPS there was no native driver for it.
I have EPSON Stylus T10 printer and driver was not available in CUPS. So I did research for it.
And finally installed it correctly. OS used is openSUSE 11.1 Gnome.
So the process which I carried out is:
Before starting the main procedure please make sure that the following dependencies are installed, if not so install it before proceeding. Go to Yast and check it there.
dependencies: gcc, libpng-devel, libtiff-devel, cups-devel.

After completing the above process successfully, download Gutenprint drivers set for CUPS from here, At the time of writing, the latest version is 5.2.3. Download the latest version.

Download Link-1

Download Link-2

Now open terminal:
Type
su

Enter root password
If your downloaded file is on desktop just type:
cd Desktop

To extract the archive type:
tar xjvf gutenprint-5.2.3.tar.bz2(type the correct archive name)

It will create a folder on the desktop, cd to it like:
Type:
cd gutenprint-5.2.3(type the correct name)

Now type:
./configure

After finishing the configure part,
Type:
make (or make -j2 to speed things up a little)

Type:
make install


And thats it, you are done!!!

Now connect your printer, turn it ON, open browser and type:
http://localhost:631

and follow the instructions to install your printer.

The above tutorial is for all printer types, which does not have driver in CUPS by default. I tested it on EPSON stylus T10, the driver I choose for it is T20... but it works. Because at the time of writing there no Linux driver for T10. But T20 works fine for T10 too.

I also open new thread for it in openSUSE forum, link to thread is:
Link to thread

Some other useful sites:
Link-1

Link-2

Enjoy printing...
ANL

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