I got an epson stylus R380 to work with FC6 using the pipslite-cups-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm which I downloaded from http://www.avasys.jp .
Here are the instructions I used (except i just installed the rpm and did not have to do the renaming of where the printer is in /dev either).
I believe the only steps I did were (note you have to be connected to the printer by a usb cable to use this program to create the ppd file): 4. Make the PPD file: run a file called "pipslite-install" which is in /usr/local/EPAva/LITE/
They should create a PPD file in /usr/share/cups/model/
After the ppd file is created you should just have to run system-config-printer and specify the file that it created as the driver.
I then uninstalled the rpm. I can now print through the printer server with the PPD files that was created.
http://forums.freestandards.org/read.php?26,594,951#msg-951 Re: Epson Stylus Photo R360 - just prints blank pages! Posted by: shinyblue (IP Logged) Date: February 09, 2007 03:07AM
Ok, fuller instructions. (copy and pasted from replies to me from ubuntu mailing list, so the grammar may not be v. consistent!)
1. You can get pipslite, which is GPL'd, at [www.avasys.jp]
(you've done this)
2. I used alien to convert the RPM to a .deb. $ alien -c name_of_the_downloaded_pipslite.rpm
3. some config stuff.
I was advised: --begin quote-- I also had to edit /etc/ekpdrc to replace "/dev/usb/lp0" with "/dev/usblp0" which is where the device was actually created - YMMV. --end quote--
but I found that it needed some combination of running the scripts in /usr/local/EPAva/LITE/scripts which prompted me for the /dev location. If you have the printer plugged in by USB, then just $ ls /dev/usb* to see what it comes up as.
3a) Run script /usr/local/EPAva/LITE/scripts/setup-cups.sh 3b) Run /usr/local/EPAva/LITE/scripts/inst-cups-post.sh
4. Make the PPD file: run a file called "pipslite-install" which is in /usr/local/EPAva/LITE/
5. After that, you add the new printer via an admin tool (eg. [localhost:631] ), and you'll need to manually add the PPD file that the install program should have placed in /usr/share/cups/model/
As I say, bit of faffing, but it worked for me.
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 12:59 -0500, jim tate wrote:
Using the Epson piplite-cups driver on FC5 , Epson Stylus Photo R260. Has anyone got this driver working yet. I have tryed all the other drivers in Fedora-cups, gutenburg, but they won't work.
Jim