Epson CX 1500 on ubuntu linux

    February 26, 2006 - 19:43 — hpn

    Epson's CX1500 works pretty fine on Linux. All I had to do to get it running was to "add the printer" with the GUI (the windows way) which was auto detected. Something to rejoice for non-geeks using Linux.

    The only catch was that though gimp-print (or gutenprint) supports the printer, the printer wasn't in the list on the Dialog that props up the available drivers... not even with the latest gimp-print - the gutenprint package. Searching around on Google BlogSearch led me to a fellow Indian's blog who had got it working by selecting the model "Stylus-C42UX" instead.

    Scanner too gets detected, but I haven't braved to scan documents with this machine on Linux, yet.

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    December 3, 2006 - 18:44 — Vasan (not verified)

    Re: Epson CX 1500 on ubuntu linux

    Today, I finally got it to work on Fedora Core 5. FC does not come with the latest gutenprint (5.0.0), so I had to compile it. At first, I did not install the cups-devel rpm, so gutenprint's configure did not install the latest cups drivers, only which had the cx1500 drivers. After wondering and doing 'find's, I somehow realized this is what I need to do: install cups-devel.

    Installed rpm for cups-devel, and re-tried the ./configure, make, sudo make install. After this, the printer config UI listed CX 1500 and printing works fine.

    Cannot get it to scan, though. http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Epson-Stylus_CX1500 claims that snapscan driver for sane should work just fine, but it does not. The Power light blinks (presumably indicating transfer of data), but xsane just locks up. No progress.

    Using scanimage command line, it immediately returns with an error. After which, even scanimage -L (which used to list the scanner) returns error.

    Let me know if you could get the scanner to work.

    December 3, 2006 - 19:30 — hpn

    Re: Epson CX 1500 on ubuntu linux

    Well, guess what? Epson Stylus now works *out of box* on Ubuntu.
    It has been quite a long time since I wrote this note.

    I haven't got a chance to try scanning, though.