I am new to Endeavour (Plasma) and have some questions (as every newbie I guess).
In the last 10 years I tried Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, Suse - most things went well and easy. Honestly Endeavour is a challenge for me But I like the style and the technical aspect.
My questions:
I have an EPSON ET4850 printer and would love to use it. I tried to configure it, but it seems that there are some packages missing. What is the best way to install it??
I love to work with google drive on Mac and Windows - how to enable it in Endeavour?
Please let us know why you think packages are missing for your printer. It supports airprint and mopria, so it should work without “drivers” from epson. Connect it via ethernet, enable required protocols on the printer side, and cups should be able to find it.
We do not enable cups by default… not even installed explicitly in any way… you can tag the cups option what will enable cups general service but not the cups-browsed service mentioned to be the issue in the vulnerability.
Driver printing is deprecated in cups, and will be removed in a future version. Future-proof would be to try to operate it driverless with ippEverywhere. Specification suggests that this should work. That is for printing, scanning may work with sane, i could not figure out if this model is supported for driverless scanning.
@StefanVonHatten
I think what @joekamprad pointed out you may need epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2 installed from the AUR. There is also a .git package available. This supports the ET4850 series epson. The package has also been update 2024-09-17.
They do plan to yes, but current state is that you can use drivers (only to not confuse)
I would omit to use driver package installation of all costs if your printer does not need it, most modern network printers should already support driverless setup.
In case you have selected Cups support in the installer, you would only need to enable cups-browsed: sudo systemctl enable --now cups-brosed and open your firewall to allow mdns (switch to home per example) info about that also in the wiki.
Depending on the used Desktop and your needs there are some options.
But I like the style and the technical aspect.
