quinta-feira, 30 de setembro de 2021

Install Epson Printer Driver on Linux

After trying to print multiple copies of a page using linux on my epson l575 printer, i noticed that only the first page was printed, and sometimes with a white page on the beggining. Eventough Linux-based distros usually installs a network printer automatically, there are some options that are not available on the auto-installed driver. To manually install the driver, you can look into the epson support page for the driver files. 

Look for your printer

Download the version for your system


After downloading the .tar.gz driver files, you can look in the ppd folder for your printer ppd file, extracting it with your compacted files manager, copy it to somewhere. 

Example: Extract the file “epson-inkjet-printer-escpr-1.7.17-1lsb3.2.tar.gz” and look for "ppd > Epson-L575_Series-epson-escpr-en.ppd” file for the L575 printer.



You can as well download my files created in sep/21 for amd64 system here. 

Add the printer if your system haven't done automatically, and in the printer details settings choose the ppd file that you extracted previously.


You can use this in any linux based system.