Failing to get EPSON ET-2850 to work (USB)

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I’m trying to get a Epson ET-2850 to work via USB.

The KDE control centre detects an EPSON ET-2850 series printer connected via USB (so far so good).

But it then gives the message:

Unable to locate recommended drivers.  Click |Refresh| to try again or choose a driver manually.

On doing so, I selected PPD file:

file:///usr/share/ppd/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr/Epson-ET-2850_Series-epson-escpr-en.ppd

as it only offers two clearly wrong (laser printer) drivers.
But on attempting to add the driver I get the error:

Failed to configure printer: No such file or directory

The connection is listed as:

usb://EPSON/ET-2850%20Series?serial=5841455A3034393110&interface=1

Does anyone have any clues? The other forum posts don’t really help.

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I guess it is this:

pamac build epson-inkjet-printer-escpr
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I have installed epson-inkjet-printer-escpr (yay -S epson-inkjet-printer-escpr), and selected the ppd file with the file chooser so there shouldn’t be a problem with typos or it not existing, the permissions look sensible:

 ls -l /usr/share/ppd/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr/Epson-ET-2850_Series-epson-escpr-en.ppd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 157810 Jun  3 10:57 /usr/share/ppd/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr/Epson-ET-2850_Series-epson-escpr-en.ppd
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Solved (sort of).

I tried accessing it via localhost:631 in Firefox, and although the URL was initially shown as a random (and variable) string of non-printable characters, pasting the printer URL from the control centre into the printer address box, allowed me to continue.

I was then able to select the driver and get the printer working, albait with a warning:

Note:Printer drivers and raw queues are deprecated and will stop working in a future version of CUPS.

Lets say it’s not wholly satisfactory but it seem to have worked.

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Well it is already in the right path. No need to pick it. It should grab the correct PPD itself when adding the printer.

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Thanks, that is what I expected too, but KDE control centre only offered 2 drivers, both for (IIRC) 3900 series laser printers. As I said above, using the browser did find the driver. Come to think of it, I think I’ve had similar issues before where I could only add printers via the browser and not the control centre—I’d forgotten about it as the previous printer lasted 8 years before deciding that it would not recognize any ink cartridges at all.

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