On 2019/09/20 17:41, Ed Gray wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a user of OpenBSD on a couple of my machines and I'd like to use > my Epson Expression Home XP 342 printer directly with them. The > printer is wireless and so doesn't need a USB driver. > > I found this thread[1] on the list from a long time ago (January 2014) > where someone helped Maurice Mcarthy get his Epson Stylus SX205 > working by providing a port called print/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr. > > It seems to be an OpenBSD version of the FreeBSD > epson-inkjet-printer-escpr port[2] but I can't find any reference to > this port in the OpenBSD ports CVS repository so I wonder was it > something somebody created privately or was it removed for a reason? > > My printer is supported by version 1.6.9 of the Epson ESC/P-R driver > onwards and as far as I can tell is not supported by Gutenprint yet. > > I would be happy to compile the driver from source myself but I was > unable to do this and I would rather use a port to make it easy to > install and remove. > > Given some directions I might also be able to use the FreeBSD port if > it's a simple enough process to convert it. > > Please could you tell me if this port is still available for recent > versions of OpenBSD? If not perhaps the older version might be updated > for OpenBSD 6.4 and recent printers? > > Regards > Ed Gray (e.mask....@gmail.com) OpenBSD 6.4 user > > Links: > 1: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=139092148214440&w=2 > 2: https://www.freshports.org/print/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr/ >
The port was only in attachments to the emails in that thread, it was never committed. I've attached an updated version for -current, I don't have time to backport it for 6.4 though.
epson-inkjet-printer-escpr.tgz
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