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gutenprint package

Epson PX-A620 printer does not work

Bug #607753 reported by YannUbuntu on 2010-07-20

This bug affects 1 person

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
Gutenprint	Unknown	Unknown	sf #3104150
xsane	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned
gutenprint (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

On updated Ubuntu 10.04.

Epson PX-A620 multifunction inkjet printer is listed as "Status=Good" in http://www.sane-project.org/lists/sane-backends-external.html , but I cannot manage to make it work. (scanner is ok, but not printer).

lsusb gives me : ID 04b8:082f Seiko Epson Corp. Stylus DX4050

When I connect the printer, Ubuntu searches a driver, but does not find. The closest I can find manually is Epson PX-A650, but it does not work.

I did not find the A620 driver in http://www.avasys.jp/lx-bin2/linux_e/spc/DL1.do

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Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst) wrote on 2010-10-31:

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs .

affects:	gutenprint (Ubuntu) → ubuntu
affects:	ubuntu → gutenprint (Ubuntu)
Changed in gutenprint (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Invalid
Changed in xsane:
status:	New → Invalid

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Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst) wrote on 2010-10-31:

Google tells me that EPSON STYLUS CX4000/DX4000/DX4050/CX3900 are very similar or even names used by Epson in other countries for this printer.
Any luck with gutenprint or avasys drivers for these models?

Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst) on 2010-11-01

Changed in gutenprint (Ubuntu):
status:	Invalid → Incomplete

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YannUbuntu (yannubuntu) wrote on 2010-11-01:

OMG ! it works perfectly with the DX4000 gutenprint driver (on Ubuntu 10.10) ! Thanks a lot!

Now for other Epson PX-A620 users, I think it would be a good idea to make Ubuntu select this driver by default :)

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Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst) wrote on 2010-11-01:

YannUbuntu,
Can you file a feature request mentioning that the DX4000 driver works in the upstream gutenprint feature tracker: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=1537&atid=351537 and add a bug watch/link here.
This will fix the problem for other PX-A620 users in future Ubuntu and other Linux versions.