Hello! I have installed the package pips-common on my squeeze box, I would also like to install this package on my wheezy box but it doesn't seem to be available for wheezy. root@Esquilinus:/home/dz2# apt-get install pips-common Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package pips-common Does anyone know what the new package is called that replaces pips-common in wheezy? Thanks
On 01/07/13 15:57, David Zuccaro wrote:
I have installed the package pips-common on my squeeze box, I would also like to install this package on my wheezy box but it doesn't seem to be available for wheezy.
pips-common was part of the Epson Stylus printer driver. Not sure if this was ever an official Debian package, you may have got it from Avasys or Epson originally? Epson still have this driver for download on their website, though they don't seem to be maintaining it (the latest versions are for etch). It may be non-trivial to get it working on a current system, but worth a try if you are attached to the printer! Which Epson model do you have? Glenn -- sks-keyservers.net 0x6d656d65
On Mon, 2013-07-01 at 17:45 +1000, Glenn McIntosh wrote:
On 01/07/13 15:57, David Zuccaro wrote:
I have installed the package pips-common on my squeeze box, I would also like to install this package on my wheezy box but it doesn't seem to be available for wheezy.
pips-common was part of the Epson Stylus printer driver. Not sure if this was ever an official Debian package, you may have got it from Avasys or Epson originally?
Epson still have this driver for download on their website, though they don't seem to be maintaining it (the latest versions are for etch). It may be non-trivial to get it working on a current system, but worth a try if you are attached to the printer! Which Epson model do you have?
Glenn
Yes I must have got it from the Epson website; I have an Epson stylus tx110. The printer still prints; I just wanted an app called ekpstm which shows hopw much ink I have left... I tried to install the deb but got dependency problems... Thanks anyway.
On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 06:25:51PM +1000, David Zuccaro wrote:
Yes I must have got it from the Epson website; I have an Epson stylus tx110. The printer still prints;
openprinting.org has details on support for this printer in their printer database at: http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Epson/Epson-Stylus_TX110 it looks like there are two drivers that support this printer. the proprietary epson-stylus-nx110 driver, and the GPL gutenprint driver. both support all features of the printer. as you've discovered, there are problems with binary-only proprietary drivers - you can't rely on them in the long term, because the manufacturer can't be relied on to update or recompile for newer versions of linux. If you're not already using it, I'd suggest switching to the gutenprint driver. don't download the driver from the openprinting.org page, use the one packaged in debian instead: apt-get install printer-driver-gutenprint (debian has version 5.2.9 dated Jul 10 2012, the openprinting.org web site only has a link to a .deb for version 5.2.7) once you've installed it, you will probably need to re-configure CUPS to use gutenprint rather than the proprietary driver, and then purge the proprietary driver from your system.
I just wanted an app called ekpstm which shows hopw much ink I have left...
this package sounds like it might do the job. Package: mtink Version: 1.0.16-6 Installed-Size: 601 Maintainer: Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org> Architecture: amd64 Depends: lesstif2 (>= 1:0.94.4), libc6 (>= 2.7), libx11-6, libxext6, libxt6, debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0 Suggests: gimp, mtink-doc Description-en: Status monitor tool for Epson inkjet printers This is a printer status monitor which enables to get the remaining ink quantity, to print test patterns, to reset printer and to clean nozzle. . Even if this monitor is targeted to Epson printer, some HP and Canon model are supported. Homepage: http://xwtools.automatix.de/ FYI, when you need to search for a package in debian in future, 'apt-cache search inkjet' will get you a list of all packages that mention epson in the description. e.g. $ apt-cache search epson epson-escpr - transitional dummy package for epson-escpr printer driver printer-driver-escpr - printer driver for Epson Inkjet that use ESC/P-R escputil - maintenance utility for Epson Stylus printers libimage-exiftool-perl - library and program to read and write meta information in multimedia files libinklevel-dev - development files for libinklevel5 libinklevel5 - library for checking the ink level of your local printer mtink - Status monitor tool for Epson inkjet printers mtink-doc - Documentation for mtink photopc - Interface to digital still cameras craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>
On Tue, 2013-07-02 at 10:33 +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 06:25:51PM +1000, David Zuccaro wrote:
this package sounds like it might do the job.
Package: mtink
Thanks Craig, unfortunately mtink doesn't seem to support my printer; it reports communication problems.
On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 02:53:29PM +1000, David Zuccaro wrote:
On Tue, 2013-07-02 at 10:33 +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 06:25:51PM +1000, David Zuccaro wrote:
this package sounds like it might do the job.
Package: mtink
Thanks Craig, unfortunately mtink doesn't seem to support my printer; it reports communication problems.
maye this one will work: escputil - maintenance utility for Epson Stylus printers Package: escputil Source: gutenprint Version: 5.2.9-1 Description-en: maintenance utility for Epson Stylus printers escputil is a utility to clean and align the heads of Epson Stylus printers. It can also check the current ink levels in the printer. . Gutenprint is the print facility for the GIMP, and in addition a suite of drivers that may be used with common UNIX spooling systems using GhostScript or CUPS. These drivers provide printing quality for UNIX/Linux on a par with proprietary vendor-supplied drivers in many cases, and can be used for many of the most demanding printing tasks. Gutenprint was formerly known as Gimp-Print. Given that the description mentions Gutenprint, I'd guess that it probably requires you to be using the printer-driver-gutenprint driver (as mentioned in my last post). if you're not already using it, you'd have to install it to get this to work. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au> BOFH excuse #335: the AA battery in the wallclock sends magnetic interference
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