Epson printer driver

josephgerth · 2021-04-25 21:08:01

Good afternoon,
I have tried several different ways to get my printer working, and I have thus far failed. I'm running a build of Arch Linux with almost no GUI, so everything I do is by the terminal or through the web. I have an Epson WF-3620 printer.

Thus far, I have installed CUPS and ghostscript. I tracked down the official drivers, although there were no Arch Linux drivers. I started by using the CUPS web interface. I easily set up the printer and got it talking to my laptop. However, the driver choice left me with 9- or 24-pin series. Trying both of these was no good; the printer will send a paper through the printer, but nothing will get printed (a blank sheet comes out).

I then tracked down the drivers suggested by Arch (epson-inkjet-printer-escpr 1.7.9-1) and downloaded them. I tried a couple of different things here, including cd into the downloaded folder, then makpkg so the BUILDPKG gets built. I even browsed through the folders to find a ppd file to upload to the CUPS web interface. These things yield no results. Right now, the printer will not speak with my laptop, and I have a warning message saying "File '/usr/lib/cups/filter/epson-escpr-wrap...' cannot be found. It is my understanding that I cannot manually move a file into the /usr folder.

Any suggestions for me? Thanks!
Joe

josephgerth · 2021-04-25 21:18:03

Folks, nevermind. I figured it out.

Turns out, I just needed to install the package using yay. For future reference, I did

yay -S epson-inkjet-printer-escpr

Easy!

seth · 2021-04-25 21:40:03

Nobody "need" to use yay or any pacman wrapper, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Makepkg#Usage
Also it's "PKGBUILD" and after building the package, you of course need to install it.

theuncringeone · 2025-09-09 13:03:05

Well, it's their preference so they can do yay or just makepkg manually.

seth · 2025-09-09 13:09:51

Yes, but the OP suggests that using makepkg failed what makes #2 sound like one has to use yay (specifically) to install the package - what is wrong.
I was just clarifying and please don't necrobump with an essentially empty post - the thread is 4½ years old.

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Epson printer driver

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