We will provide a standard DDK to printer manufacturers and driver developers which allow them to make distro-independent driver packages and upload them to the new FSG OpenPrinting database (successor of linuxprinting.org). Then every distro will simply automatically get drivers from there. Should work from Ubuntu 7.10 on, perhaps already from 7.06.
You should report this to the Epson/Avasys people.
This problem is also addressed on the FSG OpenPrinting Summit which I am organizing:
http:// www.freestandar ds.org/ en/OpenPrinting /SummitLexingto n#How_to_ write_a_ cross_distro_ printer_ driver
We will provide a standard DDK to printer manufacturers and driver developers which allow them to make distro-independent driver packages and upload them to the new FSG OpenPrinting database (successor of linuxprinting.org). Then every distro will simply automatically get drivers from there. Should work from Ubuntu 7.10 on, perhaps already from 7.06.