On Wed 25 Jul 2018 at 09:09:14 +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Control: reassign -1 wnpp > Control: retitle -1 ITP: epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2 - Epson Printer Driver > ESC/P-R Driver 2 > Control: severity -1 wishlist > Control: owner -1 ! > Control: affects -1 src:printer-driver-escpr > > Hi Robert, > > Le dimanche, 22 juillet 2018, 13.09:39 h CEST Robert Braumann a écrit : > > got an "EPSON Expression Premium XP-6000", but unfortunately there are no > > drivers for it in "printer-driver-escpr". Please add the driver for the > > "XP-6000" to the package. > > According to Epson's download center [0], the XP-6000 series printers > need the printer-driver-escpr2 driver, which is a new package that needs > to be prepared and uploaded: > > Package name : epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2 > Version : 1.0.18 > Upstream Author : Seiko Epson Corporation > URL : > http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/searchModule > License : LGPL2.1 + EPSON restrictions > Programming Lang: C > Description : Epson Inkjet Printer Driver 2 (ESC/P-R) > > This would be maintained under the Debian Printing Team umbrella. > > That said, given this COPYING.EPSON at the root of the tarball, I'm afraid > it might be non-free. It might not even be redistributable: > > In particular: > > This software includes source codes which are distributed under GNU Lesser > > General > > Public License v2.1 (COPYING.LIB). This software also includes objects > > codes > > which are distributed under the conditions of > > SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT(COPYING.EPSON). > > and: > > 2. Other Rights and Limitations. You agree not to modify, adapt or > > translate the Software. You also agree not to attempt to reverse > > engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise attempt to discover the > > source code of the Software > > Indeed, the tarball contains escprlib/lib/libescpr2*.a > > I'll check if these can be recompiled, but I really doubt it. > > You will have to download the .deb for yourself I'm afraid. > > Cheers, > OdyX > [0] http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/searchModule
According to https://www.epson.co.uk/viewcon/corporatesite/site/149/products/mainunits/specs/21503 this printer is an AirPrint and Google Cloud Print printer, so it should be capable of operating without a driver from Epson: https://wiki.debian.org/DriverlessPrinting Regards, Brian.
