[SOLVED] Epson ET-2810 printing problems

[pdc_2]

thanks; it is just that I have seen some of these curly and seemingly tricky problems solved; when someone gets fed up and just elects off their own bat to do a fresh install; and reports all fixed;

is this the first printer that you have connected to this 7 month old system? ..... I ask as you said 2 days ago ......."I got a new printer" .......

hopefully though brian has his thinking cap on and can save the day

second question: how many icons to print; do you have in your PRINTERS folder? Can you show us a screenshot of that folder? Can you also give us a screenshot of right-clicking on each entry in that printers folder; and showing us the PROPERTIES window, so we can see those please?

[MSB]

Sorry, I can not make screenshots atm as it is in the middle of the night and I am on a laptop now

But it is a second printer that was supposed to go on my partners system. Both systems are mostly the same, only a different processor and vid card. Same Linux and same install date. It also does not work on her system. Excactly the same programs that work or not.

If I recall correct, I see 4 icons, one is the old Samsung printer, second the new Epson via wifi and a third is the Epson wifi one on my partners system, as it auto connects to our computers. The fourth is the one made with Brians lpadmin command. But will have to check tomorrow.

My Samsung printer, which worked flawlessly, has not been connected for weeks, so should not conflict and also was never on my partners system before.

Even tried turning off the firewall to no avail. Just looks weird to me that xed doesn´t print normally but does fine with the terminal command.

I Appreciate the help a lot already guys, thanks!

Edit - Good morning, added pictures

The printer Brian's code added

Epson I see from my partners wifi on the network

Epson I see via my own computer on the wifi network

[MSB]

The Samsung that is installed on my computer

And all together on my computer

Hope it helps.

[brian_p]

Here you go.

Hope you do not need it after trying to print as it is too large after that to add here, even cut in 3 parts it says too big

The error_log does not show any real sign of printing as not all info is there. I should have advised you to have compressed the file. Try getting a new file to send. First empty the error_log with

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sudo truncate -s 0 /var/log/cups/error_log

Print and then compress with

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sudo gzip /var/log/cups/error_log

You could try Evince for viewing and printing PDFs: viewtopic.php?t=318653

[MSB]

I may have found a solution and would like your opinion on it. Reading this thread viewtopic.php?f=51&t=356931

I added a new printer with Cups and used a Gutenprint driver and it works seemingly for a 100% now But it is from another series, 2700 instead of the 2800. But I think the hardware on them is the same.

[brian_p]

I may have found a solution and would like your opinion on it. Reading this thread viewtopic.php?f=51&t=356931

I added a new printer with Cups and used a Gutenprint driver and it works seemingly for a 100% now But it is from another series, 2700 instead of the 2800. But I think the hardware on them is the same.

Printing is printing. How can one argue with success?

I still cannot understand why Xreader should print with Gutenprint and not with driverless or the Epson driver.

[MSB]

Was strange to start with, that Firefox and Libre had no problems at all. But printing is printing indeed
In the beginners sections there is the same model with the same problems and one called the printer a preemie.
I got no clue about it all, if there is a driver or some kind in the printer itself that could be faulty/new programming.

But anyway, thanks for all the help

I will put my solution in the first post

[brian_p]

Was strange to start with, that Firefox and Libre had no problems at all. But printing is printing indeed
In the beginners sections there is the same model with the same problems and one called the printer a preemie.
I got no clue about it all, if there is a driver or some kind in the printer itself that could be faulty/new programming.

My best guess is that the issue involves the device's firmware. However, may I ask a favour? Install sane-airscan and give

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scanimage -L

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airscan-discover

[MSB]

Sure

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scanimage -L
device `airscan:w1:EPSON ET-2810 Series' is a WSD EPSON ET-2810 Series ip=192.168.1.52

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airscan-discover
[devices]
  EPSON ET-2810 Series = http://192.168.1.52:80/WDP/SCAN, WSD

Scanner works

Firmware that is available is up-to-date btw. Was one of the possible solutions given here viewtopic.php?f=90&t=359662&p=2084120#p2084120 But it could be faulty, it just went to market here too.

[brian_p]

Sure

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scanimage -L
device `airscan:w1:EPSON ET-2810 Series' is a WSD EPSON ET-2810 Series ip=192.168.1.52

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airscan-discover
[devices]
  EPSON ET-2810 Series = http://192.168.1.52:80/WDP/SCAN, WSD

Scanner works

Many thanks for doing that. One final thing: would you confirm scanning works with

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simple-scan "airscan:w1:EPSON ET-2810 Series"

Firmware that is available is up-to-date btw. Was one of the possible solutions given here viewtopic.php?f=90&t=359662&p=2084120#p2084120 But it could be faulty, it just went to market here too.

The scanning protocol is WSD and not with uscan (the eSCL protocol), which, as we have seen, is not provied by the device. That will not please mobile phone users.

[MSB]

Starting 'Document Scanner' and it sees the WSD Epson and works fine.

First time I used the command it failed in the program, second time it did scan fine but I got a terminal output 'Segmentation fault (core dumped)'
Third time no error but it keeps scanning and scanning and scanning forever lol

Edit:
Tested the 'Epson Smart Panel' app on my android phone and can print and scan