Epson xp-410 drivers

Question

I'm on the latest ubuntu iteration, 13.10 I believe, and I cant find any drivers for my printer.

When i tried to use the generic drivers it just prints out symbols and when i try to use other epson drivers it will print in weird colors.

So my question is this, are there ways to get the drivers for Ubuntu or will I just have to use windows whenever I want to print something?

Its an Epson xp-410

Answer 1

Download the deb driver from:

The 32 bit drivers are:

http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/op/stable/debian/dists/lsb3.2/main/binary-i386/epson-inkjet-printer-201303w_1.0.0-1lsb3.2_i386.deb

The 64 bit drivers are:

http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/op/stable/debian/dists/lsb3.2/main/binary-amd64/epson-inkjet-printer-201303w_1.0.0-1lsb3.2_amd64.deb

Answer 2

it is looking to see what driver is installed;

click on this link localhost:631/printers/ ........it looks to see what printers are recognised on your system: is the Epson mentioned there?

I see the drivers listed here http://www.driversepson.com/epson-xp-410-driver/

are you using 32bit mint please? If you don't know, type [quote]uname -a /quote] in a terminal and hit the enter key: How do I check if I have a 32-bit or a 64-bit OS?

Answer 3

I have an XP-540. I had the same problem with the printer only printing boring ASCII characters ... in the leftmost column only, leaving the rest of the page white. This worked for me:

sudo aptitude install printer-driver-escpr

After that, this driver appeared: EPSON XP-530 Series , Epson Inkjet Printer Driver (ESC/P-R) for Linux — which seems to work fine, although I have an XP-540 not XP-530.

(Before that, I also installed imagescan-bundle-ubuntu-16.04-1.3.20.x64.deb.tar.gz, which I downloaded from here: http://support.epson.net/linux/en/imagescanv3.php?version=1.3.20#ubuntu, and I also: sudo aptitude install lsb — not sure which (if any) of these things were actually needed. They did not make the printer work.)