Epson CX7400 printer and FC9

[Bill Davidsen]

dpet wrote:
> On Fri, 23 May 2008 23:23:15 -0400 (EDT)
> fedora-list-request at redhat.com wrote:
> 
>> The latest version of gutenprint is supposedly able to support this 
>> printer. Any idea where I find that? If there is one issue with Linux 
>> it's that by the time printer and scanner hardware is supported it's
>> no longer in production. I can't count how many scanners I have
>> bought (new) which just didn't work, and by the time they worked the
>> new model or new firmware was out and I couldn't buy the one that
>> works.
>>
>> Anyway, I would like to use this setup because it's quite neat but 
>> totally unsupported.
>>
>> Alternatively, if I could use the USB printer and scanner directly
>> from Windows under kvm without causing the working system printers to
>> die, I would do that. Last time I tried the printer worked but the
>> rest of the system printers hung after I did it. :-(
> 
> 	Do you mean that the scan and print drivers at:
> 
> http://avasys.jp/hp/menu000000500/hpg000000442.htm
> 
> 	are not suitable for you?
> 
The list of supported o/s (click "supported OS" button) ends at RH9 or 
FC3, and doesn't include CX7400. So I guess that would be a "no," or at 
least "not obviously." The latest gutenprint-cups supposedly includes 
CX7400, but that's clearly not the one on rawhide, which picks the 7700 
driver which spews paper as long as there is any.

I was hoping for a drop-in gutenprint RPM from a 3rd party repository.

If you have some deep link to the site and a version for FC9 I'd love to 
have it. I just don't want to screw up the print system yet again to the 
point where the other printers don't work.


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