No Epson Stylus Photo R220 or R200 drivers

[Rick O'Sullivan]

The gutenprint website says that they still support the earlier "Epson Stylus Photo" models, but the Ubuntu printer settings tool only shows drivers for the R240 and up. Is this a regression, or purposeful? See http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/p_Supported_Printers.php

The gutenprint site shows this sub-list of similarly supported drivers, including the R220:

  Epson Stylus Photo R200 escp2-r200
  Epson Stylus Photo R210 escp2-r210
  Epson Stylus Photo R220 escp2-r220
  Epson Stylus Photo R230 escp2-r230

What you expected to happen?

  I expected the Ubuntu printer settings utility to offer the "Epson Stylus Photo R220" printer driver.

What happened instead?

  The Ubuntu printer settings utility only offered the series R240 and above.

System Info:

  Description: Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS
  Release: 20.04

Cups Info:
  Installed: 2.3.1-9ubuntu1.1
  Candidate: 2.3.1-9ubuntu1.1
  Version table:
  *** 2.3.1-9ubuntu1.1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
      2.3.1-9ubuntu1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages

Note: Manually, I was able to successfully install openprinting-gutenprint_5.2.7-1lsb3.2_amd64.deb from the OpenPrinting site (which includes R220) but it would be better to find the R220 driver in the list of available print drivers through the automated Ubuntu printer settings utility.

See https://www.openprinting.org/printer/Epson/Epson-Stylus_Photo_R220 for the Debian package(s).