Driver for Epson Photo Printer

[S.Bob]

All;


I just ordered this printer:

  Epson SureColor P900 17" Photo Printer


Any thoughts on where I can get a driver for it to print large photos? 
Or even the driver for it's predecessor the P800?


Thanks

in advance





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[James Szinger]

On Mon, 25 May 2020 15:11:46 -0600
"S.Bob" <sbob(a)quadratum-braccas.com&gt; wrote:
>  I just ordered this printer:
>  
>    Epson SureColor P900 17" Photo Printer
>  
>  Any thoughts on where I can get a driver for it to print large
>  photos? Or even the driver for it's predecessor the P800? 
Gutenprint lists support for the P800 as experimental, and I didn't see
any mention of the P900---I suspect it's too new.  Copy your TIFFs to a
Mac for printing?

Jim

[Tom Horsley]

If it is a network printer you could run a windows virtual machine
and print from there (maybe USB pass-through would also work
for a direct connection).

I know I gave up long ago on a working scanner for linux
and do all my scanning (fortunately not a lot of it) from
my windows 10 virtual machine.

[Doug McGarrett]

On 5/26/20 1:19 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
>  If it is a network printer you could run a windows virtual machine
>  and print from there (maybe USB pass-through would also work
>  for a direct connection).
>  
>  I know I gave up long ago on a working scanner for linux
>  and do all my scanning (fortunately not a lot of it) from
>  my windows 10 virtual machine.
>  _______________________________________________ 
I have used XSane Scanner Tool on
OpenSuse, and some years ago, on PCLinuxOs.
I have discovered that I had to tell my Epson all-in-one to have a fixed IP
address--in my case, 192.168.1.26--to make printing and scanning work in OpenSuse.
(I also had fixed IP in PCLinux, but I don't remember if it was necessary then.)
You should be able to tell the printer to use a fixed IP, and what it should be.
YMMV.

--doug

[Samuel Sieb]

On 5/26/20 10:19 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
>  If it is a network printer you could run a windows virtual machine
>  and print from there (maybe USB pass-through would also work
>  for a direct connection).
>  
>  I know I gave up long ago on a working scanner for linux
>  and do all my scanning (fortunately not a lot of it) from
>  my windows 10 virtual machine. 
I have an HP Deskjet and a Brother laser AIO and I can scan from both.
The Gnome simple scanner works great for the things I need to scan.

[Tim]

On Tue, 2020-05-26 at 13:19 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
>  If it is a network printer you could run a windows virtual machine
>  and print from there (maybe USB pass-through would also work
>  for a direct connection). 
I think network printers are always the way to go.  You can put the
printer anywhere, you can more easily use it by more than one device,
they tend to be more likely to support a common printing language than
USB-only devices (which are quite likely to use some custom Windows
driver for each product, because it's easier for them to just do their
own coding balls-ups than adhere to any public specicification, and
sell you a new scanner when their driver becomes obsolete).

>  I know I gave up long ago on a working scanner for linux
>  and do all my scanning (fortunately not a lot of it) from
>  my windows 10 virtual machine. 
I've always managed to get scanning working.  I had an old USB scanner,
well still do somewhere, that worked quite well (it's mechanical
stuffed, the toothed drive belt has gone stiff).  I have a pixma
printer scanner combo that I can get to scan, albeit only in a *very*
basic manner.  Xsane can't find it, but their ScanGear MP tool can.

Oddly, on the Mac, the printer can be used by USB or network, but their
drivers only support using the scanner over USB.  I can do it either
way on Linux.

The basic modes are an annoying shortcoming, fortunately I haven't
needed to do anything more than it offers, so far.  You have a document
or photo mode (document is fax-style black & white lithographic), a
colour or grayscale, and preset paper sizes.  There's no preview,
there's no customisable scan size/position options, no image levels
control (brightness, contrast, tint, etc) and there's only a scan JPEG
or scan PDF button.  If I want to do multipage PDF, I have to use
something else to merge them (such as pdfunite on the command line).

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