On 22/09/2020 19.10, DennisG wrote:
On 9/21/20 8:36 PM, Doug McGarrett wrote:
This mail doesn't thread with the others, it shows "lone". I think you sent it as a forward. You can't do that, you have to use "reply list" button in every case, even when it is to correct a mistake. Just copy-paste the content from the mistaken post.
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(As a reminder to the reader, I have the Epson WP4530 all-in-one and the HP LaserJet m201, both on the LAN. They both print
perfectly from other Linux computers, set up about 2015. I was fortunate to have someone to write the instructions for both
printers, nothing automatic. [PCLOS].)
And it very probably will print fine if properly set up on openSUSE. I posted the solution some days ago, again last night, and you were given it in the Forums thread a month ago:
Install the epson inkjet package (epson-inkjet-printer-escpr) with YaST/Software Management. That package includes a large number of drivers provided by Epson, including your WP-4530.
Others have mentioned that package, like Adam, in July :-) Me, I mentioned some other Epson related package, I think. I don't have an Epson printer (I do have an old standalone Epson scanner that works out of the box).
How to find that package? The Search function in YaST/Software Mgmt. Type in "epson". Description: "The ESC/P-R driver works as a filter program used with CUPS. It offers high quality printing with Seiko Epson color inkjet printers. This driver can only be used with printers that support the Epson ESC/P-R language." That would be your printer. This is confirmed by looking in the package file list with YaST.
Right.
Once this package is installed, YaST/Printer will see these drivers and should offer Epson-WP-4530_Series-epson-escpr-en.ppd.gz, your driver installation file.
Doug, given the mess, I offer this editorial (which I'll likely be scolded for by the list):
No, you are right, no scolding :-)
You are gonna have a lot of frustration if you continue to do so much directly from inside the guts with arcane commands that many if not most on this list have worked with for decades. For many here, this stuff is second nature. What we don't know, we know how to find out, and usually quickly. We know how to fix things w/o breaking them (well, most of the time). But you don't really have a handle on the theory-of-operation. You don't know the tools. You try to follow advice by rote but w/o really understanding what you're doing, so errors are frequent. This makes things much more difficult than necessary. Tools like YaST - for my money, the best Linux admin toolset - were created not just to make life easier for old farts like me (40 yrs with system hw/sw) but to enable folks like you to get the same benefits w/o having to actually be a nerd. Finally, re PCLOS: Tex put together a nice little distro using various pieces he likes and he controls that tightly; more power to him. I can see why that might have been a good fit for you. Or possibly Ubuntu/Kubuntu, where users commonly use the command line to do things they don't understand. But openSUSE, like cousin Fedora, is a very different animal. Yet you are down in the openSUSE bowels before having learned the basics. And so consequently - notwithstanding your request re no lecture - please reconsider and do yourself (and others) a favor and move to Leap; you can still get most of the latest & greatest if you just learn what the add-on repo's and OBS are about. Why on earth do you care about the newest kernel and the like? For now, give Leap a try. Learn YaST. Learn your DE. You can always move to TW later if you discover a real need. Occam's razor.
We all agree with that, but his reason for using TW is to "avoid upgrades". With Leap, you have to do an upgrade every year, and a big upgrade about once each four or five years. But TW is where new features are tested, you get small upgrades every week. And new features and new problems and new solutions.
Good luck.
-- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)