A friend gave us a new Epson Stylus R280 printer (he’s been getting several free ones with his computer and related purchases). This is good; we’ve been needing an everyday-type printer.
I started looking for drivers. The Epson site does not support Linux, but it did point me to the Avasys site, which has a driver. Unfortunately, the source RPM wouldn’t compile, but the downloaded tarball seemed to be working fine. It asked me for the name and location of the device, at which point, crossing my fingers, I proceeded to unpack the printer and hook it up….
And CUPS just recognized it instantly! I didn’t even have to finish the manual setup of the driver I had downloaded. The test page came out fine!
Is this what life is like for Mac users?
