need drivers for kodak esp3 all in one printer

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1068863&page=4

Post #36 by mister_playboy

Kodak does not release linux drivers for this printer.

However, a faint ray of hope exists (but may be a bit of a challenge to set up, and may not work). To use this option, you would need to be comfortable using the linux terminal.

Four days ago, a linux driver for some esp series printers was uploaded as a deb package, using the code developed by a individual developer here:

http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/c2esp.html

The author said that although it may be able to work on ESP 3 printers, but he was not sure (presumably he does not have this hardware to test).

This has been auto-imported to the next version of Ubuntu, Ocelot, which is still under development.

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/c2esp/18-2

You then need to build the deb using the following procedure,:
open a terminal and run (cut and paste):

These instructions require pyppd, which is only available in natty. If you are running an earlier version than natty, we need to rebuild pyppd too.

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#download c2esp 18-2 package from launchpad
wget https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/c2esp_18.orig.tar.gz
wget https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/c2esp_18-2.debian.tar.gz
wget https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/c2esp_18-2.dsc

#install the bits we need to rebuild the package
sudo apt-get install build-essential fakeroot dpkg-dev devscripts debhelper
sudo apt-get install python xz-utils libcupsimage2-dev libcupsdriver1-dev pyppd

#extract package to folder
dpkg-source -x *.dsc
cd esp-18

#rebuild package.
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b

#install package
cd ..
dpkg -i c2esp*.deb

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As I said, this may not necessarily work, as the author has not tested this against a esp3 device