[SOLVED] Install Epson Lx 300+ printer

[Member Neo78]

The system does not automatically recognize the Lx-300 + printer, I use Antix 19.3 on an old dual core with 2 gigs of Ram, it works fine for me but it does not recognize the printer automatically.

!Please Help!

[Moderator caprea]

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Is this live or installed ? On a live-system the cups service is disabled by default.
sudo service cups start

Did you look in control-centre > hardware > printersettings ?
What did you try until now?

[Member seaken64]

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Have you used the Epson printer on Linux before? It probably requires a driver. Have you checked the Epson website for a driver?

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[Member afghan]

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I have an EPSON LQ-300+ which is a 24pin version of the LX-300+. There is a PPD file for this printer nowadays so I use that. Try looking for a PPD file the LX-300 series.

Before somebody made the PPD file for the printer, I used the Epson generic 24pin driver. It works fine, so I strongly suspect that the generic Epson 9pin driver will also work fine for your printer. Just don’t expect fancy features – it’s a simple dot matrix printer after all. I use mine mostly for printing out code listing for debugging (yes I’m old school) and backup (yes a hardcopy is the most reliable backup).

Good luck.

Beware of people who knows nothing; they are the ones that won't know that they know nothing.

[Member ModdIt]

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Getting a driver for older printers is on occasion tricky. Hit me with a Tally 9330 laser.

In most cases the PPD is included in the printer specific windows driver installer exe. Unpack the executable and you can add the
ppd for your printer to cups from the web interface on localhost:631.
Rename the exe to .zip in most cases it will unpack far enough to access the ppd.

[Member Neo78]

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Thank you very much for all the comments, I am using the live mode, so I did not know that the possibility of printing was disabled, I will try with sudo service cups start, to see what happens, it is not possible for me to download the linux diver from the epson page also my internet connection is very slow and it takes me a long time to do a sudo apt update especially from live mode.

I live in Cuba.

Thanks for the answers. Very good job. Antix works very well for me on my old machine.

I use it daily very fast.

Greetings.

[Member Neo78]

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Thanks for your answer, could you give me more details about that procedure?
Greetings.

[Member ModdIt]

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Neo78, guess Epson main site is blocked for you because of USA Embargo. I am not a fan of those kind of politics.

Just did some more testing, the epson install exe file will not unpack, that is a first time problem for me.

You will need to experiment as I do not have same printer to use to find all steps perfectly.
Open Printing.org states that the IBM Pro PPD will work with your printer.
You will probably need to download the PPD from http://openprinting.org/printer/Epson/Epson-LX-300plus

Connect your printer and switch it on
Boot your computer and login.
start cups: sudo service cups start

Enter localhost:631 in Browser, press enter to reach cups interface.
Go in to adding printers and classes, check if your printer is detected by cups, it should be,
look for IBM Pro entry, (if not already present) you will need to import the PPD yourself.

If you are still stuck please give us more details of what you need. We will do our best to get
your system working smoothly.

[Moderator caprea]

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antiX-live always starts with some services disabled by default,
the boot-params are disable=lxF

On a bios-boot you should see them on boot screen
on a uefi-boot you have to press the e-key

if you delete the l, the cups service should start on boot

But
sudo service cups start
should work, too.

got a pm from the OP,accidentally I guess

Thank you for your reply, Yes I use Antix in live mode, I thought it will automatically detect the printer, but it did not happen so I tried to add it through the control panel but it does not work.
Thanks greetings.

[Member Neo78]

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Problem solved, thanks for the answers to all.
Greetings.

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