Pwnious Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 Hello, I just installed Mandriva 2005 on a laptop. An all-in-one printer, Epson Stylus CX4600, is attached to the laptop. Does anyone know of any websites that has drivers for the printer for linux? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 According to Google it uses the gutenprint driver. Thats an open source driver so should come with Mandriva. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jboy Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 I have a similar model - the Epson CX6600 all-in-one. I don't remember if the printer was auto-detected or not. But there were a couple drivers available for a similar model, like the CX6400 (that machine isn't running right now so I don't have exact details) but, in any event, I used the mandriva-supplied CUPS+Gimp v4.2.7 driver and it works fine. With LE2005, I was able to use configure and use the scanner using the xsane package. The scanner wasn't auto-detected but with a manual install there was an Epson CX6400 driver available, so I used that and it worked perfectly. Cannot get the scanner to work with 2006 though. Does yours have a memory card reader too? An SD memory card was detected as /dev/sda1 and auto-mounted as /mnt/removeable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nchancock Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 linuxprinting.org is a great resource. I have the exact same printer and the Epson CX3200 printer dirver in CUPS works like a charm. No troubles whatsoever. Don't expect much in the way of ink-level reporting, or any of that other jazz, though. Hope this helps. NATE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jboy Posted December 11, 2005 Report Share Posted December 11, 2005 Oh, I forgot about the ink level reporting: System -> Configuration -> Printing -> Mtink (Epson inkjet printer maintenance and ink level monitor) It did correctly show the amount of ink left in the cartridges. The binary is /usr/bin/mtink Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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