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Are some fairly common printers not supported out of the box?

Asked by Ricardo Bánffy

I was trying to set up my very popular Epson C87 printer and, to my astonishment, I noticed there were no drivers for it by default (I used to set it up as a C86)

Since it's a fairly common printer (both C87 and C86), I suppose I did something wrong during installation. It worked flawlessly under Edgy.

Did the drivers move? Shouldn't they be installed by default as I am sure they were under Edgy?

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Felix Heinonen (fheinonen) said : 		#1

For more info:
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Epson-Stylus_C86

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Felix Heinonen (fheinonen) said : 		#2

Epson Stylus C86 driver is included in Ubuntu

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Felix Heinonen (fheinonen) said : 		#3

Sorry, it's not included in Ubuntu and not in the OpenPrinting database. Perhaps they forgot to add it? :)

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Felix Heinonen (fheinonen) said : 		#4

Try using the driver for C88.

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Best Ricardo Bánffy (rbanffy) said : 		#5

Thanks, fheinonen, but that's weird. The pop-up list was not populated until after I installed the gutenprint drivers, which are not installed out of the box.

Maybe we should file a bug regarding that, see if someone with a fresh install out of the CD confirms it (I installed off the last beta, so, some weirdness is expected)

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Ricardo Bánffy (rbanffy) said : 		#6

It works flawlessly with the C86 driver, but if it's not installed by default, we may have a quality issue at hand.

How do we know how popular is this printer line?

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Felix Heinonen (fheinonen) said : 		#7

The drivers are installed by default. You can find them from this manifest.
cupsys-driver-gutenprint 5.0.0.99.1-0ubuntu2
libgutenprint2 5.0.0.99.1-0ubuntu2
libgutenprintui2-1 5.0.0.99.1-0ubuntu2
http://releases.ubuntu.com/feisty/ubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386.manifest

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Ricardo Bánffy (rbanffy) said : 		#8

OK. Solved then. Thanks fheinonen