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  1. Bug #99372
  2. Comment #12

Comment 12 for bug 99372

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Zebidiah (zebidiah) wrote : Re: [Bug 99372] Re: Driver for Epson Stylus printers not found in Kubuntu Feisty (WORKAROUND!!!!)

On Sunday 29 April 2007 14:45, 7penselen wrote:
> I have a Epson Stylus Photo R220 and my printer has always worked
> well under Linux and I couldn't find it in the printer KDE Printing
> Manager
>
> Finally I as an ex-slackware user I know about configuring CUPS with
> "http://localhost:631/" and I install it via my browser and after it
> I find it in the KDE Printing Manager and it works.
>
> I think this bug must be fixed, the workaround of
> "http://localhost:631/" must be published as long there is no
> suitable fix and I think this bug is quite irritating, when you have
> this printers. Especially when someone has no Linux experience.

Thanks for that bit of information. While I new of http://localhost:631
(though never used it) I didn't think it would offer any other way of
adding a printer to which the drivers were not in the distribution. I
will give this a try.

  Zebidiah