Jan 9, 2013

Epson Filter driver for L110 & L210 for Raspberry Pi (ARM6)

Update : I have throw away my Epson L110 printer after getting plaugued with constant dry head and clean head/flush ink routine every two weeks. I finally got the Brother printer with the same ink tanks, no more head drying issue. Please consider the Brother DCP-T300 if you are loking for a good printer.

As for the drivers, they are no longer available or mainitaned by me.

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I was trying to setup the Raspberry Pi to work as a Printer server on my home network and figured out that the Epson L110 is a new printer, no support as yet from CUPS on Linux.

After a lot of struggle, I managed to compile the ARM6 version of the Epson Filter drivers for the L110 and got it working. Thought I would share the same as it is not easy to get a ARM version of the filter driver.

1. Extract "Epson Filter Driver.zip" in your root on the Raspberry Pi. This will create the /opt structure that you need plus two additional files in the root. The opt directory also contains the Epson Filter driver for ARM.
2. Run postinst.
3. Make sure you correct the path to the filter driver in the PPD file if you are placing it elsewhere.
4. Use the attached PPD file to install the printer in the cups web interface.

Lo and Viola, it starts working. However, CUPS is still not able to print a test page from the same machine, but printing works from other machines as a network printer.


Epson Filter Driver.zip

This will probably work for the Epson L110 Series, L210 Series, L300 Series, L350 Series, L355 Series, L550 Series, L555 Series drivers. The sources and x86 are available at Epson Site