You can get around this by installing the latest version of Gutenprint drivers and then run the uninstaller again. I don’t print many documents any more so it’s mostly intended for printing forms I need to fax or snail-mail. The only reason that the Gutenprint uninstaller should fail is if the receipt for the installer of Gutenprint is no longer on the computer. Quality of the printer test is good but I’ve not done any serious prints with the printer yet. You can also configure the printer using the GNOME printer configuration utility ( /usr/bin/system-config-printer from the command line). With the OpenPrinting version of the gutenprint package installed, configuring the printer under CUPS was pretty simple. gutenprint-locales is: This package contains the i18n files of Gutenprint, used by libgutenprint9, printer-driver-gutenprint and escputil. Fedora is an LSB ( Linux Standards Base) 3.1 compliant distribution, not an LSB 3.2 compliant system (see the output from the lsb_release command). I don’t know why the Fedora package is missing the R270 driver.Īnother important note on this is that you must get the LSB 3.1 gutenprint package from the OpenPrinting site. This means you need to manually remove the Fedora package and reinstall the OpenPrinting package after each update. Unfortunately, since the OpenPrinting package is a back rev (5.0.1) of the gutenprint release, every time you do a package update ( yum update) the OpenPrinting package is replaced by the Fedora package. The LSB3.1 gutenprint package is required because Fedora’s gutenprint-5.0.2 package does not contain the driver for the Epson Stylus Photo R270, which is the driver used for the R280 too. Note that OpenPrinting is the new version of the old, but it’s under the LinuxFoundation’s web site now. Sudo yum -y remove gutenprint gutenprint-foomaticĪnd then download the LSB 3.1 gutenprint RPM package from the OpenPrinting web site and install it: Fortunately, you just have to remove gutenprint and gutenprint-foomatic packages That’s because the gutenprint package under Fedora is missing the driver support for this printer. This printer is supported under Gutenprint but under Fedora 9 it isn’t. The cheapest model at my local Office Max was the Epson Stylus Photo R280. Having had so much luck with the Epson and knowing Epson support was good in Gutenprint drivers, I went for a new Epson. Gutenprint is the print facility for the GIMP, and in addition a suite of drivers that may be used with common UNIX spooling systems using GhostScript or CUPS. Install this package if you want to have lots of info about the Gutenprint library when you're programming. So I decided to get a low end model for my home office. documentation about the Gutenprint library for photo-quality printing. That left me without a printer (though my wife has two nice printers for her graphics design business). ![]() My Epson Style 740 finally gave out earlier this year, joining a Lexmark E210 laser printer that had given out before that. Thu Augin Fedora / Linux / Open Source tagged epson / Fedora / GIMP / gnome / graphics / Linux / printing / r280 / rpm / yum (updated 5346 days ago)
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