Epson Printers Connection - 7610 & 7840

I am totally new to Linux and Manjaro, I am trying to convert 6 pcs from Windows 10 to Manjaro.
The Pcs are all I£ spec with 16 Gig of memory.
I am trying tonnect two printers a 7610 and a 7840 that are network connected and install the print drivers.
I have tried all the usual suggestions but have failed, \i have download the ppd file from the Epson website, the error message I get is bad ppd file.

I need simple instructions to help me, any help at all will be gratefully received.

Thanks in anticipation.

Regards

New to the Manjaro forum, also, it seems.

Welcome. :slight_smile:

System information is usually expected in order for others to help effectively – please see below :point_down: for helpful directions.

Additionally, give specific information about the printers you are attempting to place in service – complete model numbers, their capabilities, and any other detail that might be useful to those wishing to help.

Tell us also what you have done so far in order to have the printers work as expected – this will help avoid duplication of steps you may have already taken – the more you help, the more the community might help in return.

Regards.


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Assuming that CUPS is installed and enabled (systemctl status cups.service), many modern printers can be set up as driverless (no PPD installation required) using the IPP everywhere driver.

On command line as root (or prepend sudo):

lpadmin -p printername -E -v ipp://11.22.33.44/ipp/print -m everywhere # replace printername and ip address with your values

Get more information there: https://www.cups.org/doc/admin.html and https://www.pwg.org/ipp/everywhere.html

Configuration of your CUPS printers: http://localhost:631/

Try if your printer offers a web interface: http://11.22.33.44:631/

Set your regional paper format in /etc/papersize .

Using my google-fu, if the above printer is Epson WorkForce WF-7610DWF, in it’s specs i see Airprint which is the apple name for ipp, so yes, it should work driverless as shown above. At least printing and probably scanning, for the fax i do not know.

Check if you have the meta package manjaro-printing.

Problem Resolved, thanks to all who viewed or replied with help.

The resoloution was completed by following the instructions on \n aticle on Manjaro printing Printing - Manjaro

pamac install manjaro-printer
sudo gpassword -a your_username sys
pamac build hplip-plugin
sudo systemctl enable --now cups.service
sudo systemctl enable --now cups.socket
sudo systemctl enable --now cups.path
pamac install avahi
sudo systemctl enable --now avahi-daemon.service
pamac install system-config-printer
pamac install print-manager

Then, in the CUPS GUI:

add your printer
select your printer name
select your printer connection
install your printer driver

Once again many thanks for all the help and suggestions

Regards

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