12.04 64bit CUPS not detecting Epson XP-100 printer

**AshNova** · April 16th, 2013

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to get an Epson XP-100 printer to work but CUPS for some reason won't see the printer or not properly. I did these to see if the printer is detected by my laptop based on this website https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingPrintingProblems :

Code:

ashley@HPLP:~$ lsmod | grep usb
usbhid                 47238  0 
hid                    99636  2 hid_microsoft,usbhid
usblp                  18307  0

Code:

ashley@HPLP:~$ tail -f /var/log/syslog
Apr 16 10:22:18 HPLP rtkit-daemon[1709]: Supervising 9 threads of 3 processes of 2 users.
Apr 16 10:22:18 HPLP pulseaudio[2055]: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
Apr 16 10:22:19 HPLP kernel: [   28.957153] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
Apr 16 10:22:22 HPLP ntpdate[1778]: adjust time server 91.189.94.4 offset -0.293595 sec
Apr 16 10:22:29 HPLP NetworkManager[895]: <info> (wlan0): IP6 addrconf timed out or failed.
Apr 16 10:22:29 HPLP NetworkManager[895]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 4 of 5 (IPv6 Configure Timeout) scheduled...
Apr 16 10:22:29 HPLP NetworkManager[895]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 4 of 5 (IPv6 Configure Timeout) started...
Apr 16 10:22:29 HPLP NetworkManager[895]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 4 of 5 (IPv6 Configure Timeout) complete.
Apr 16 10:31:53 HPLP kernel: [  603.355836] usb 1-1.2: USB disconnect, device number 3
Apr 16 10:31:53 HPLP kernel: [  603.356339] usblp0: removed
Apr 16 10:32:00 HPLP kernel: [  610.459490] usb 1-1.2: new full-speed USB device number 4 using ehci_hcd
Apr 16 10:32:01 HPLP mtp-probe: checking bus 1, device 4: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.2"
Apr 16 10:32:01 HPLP mtp-probe: bus: 1, device: 4 was not an MTP device
Apr 16 10:32:01 HPLP kernel: [  611.011218] usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 4 if 1 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04B8 pid 0x0895

Code:

ashley@HPLP:~$ lsusb 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 04b8:0895 Seiko Epson Corp. 
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 045e:076c Microsoft Corp. 
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 138a:0005 Validity Sensors, Inc. VFS301 Fingerprint Reader
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 064e:f209 Suyin Corp.

Code:

ashley@HPLP:~$ ls -l /dev/usb/lp* /dev/bus/usb/*/*
crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 189,   0 Apr 16 10:22 /dev/bus/usb/001/001
crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 189,   1 Apr 16 10:22 /dev/bus/usb/001/002
crw-rw-r-- 1 root lp   189,   3 Apr 16 10:32 /dev/bus/usb/001/004
crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 189, 128 Apr 16 10:22 /dev/bus/usb/002/001
crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 189, 129 Apr 16 10:22 /dev/bus/usb/002/002
crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 189, 130 Apr 16 10:22 /dev/bus/usb/002/003
crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 189, 131 Apr 16 10:22 /dev/bus/usb/002/004
crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 189, 132 Apr 16 10:22 /dev/bus/usb/002/005
crw-rw---- 1 root lp   180,   0 Apr 16 10:32 /dev/usb/lp0

Code:

ashley@HPLP:~$ sudo usb_printerid /dev/usb/lp0 
GET_DEVICE_ID string:
MFG:EPSON;CMD:ESCPL2,BDC,D4,D4PX;MDL:XP-100 Series;CLS:PRINTER;DES:EPSON XP-100 Series;CID:EpsonStd9;FID:FXN,DPN,WFN,ETN,AFN,DAN;RID:20;

Code:

sudo usb_printerid /dev/usb/lp1 
Error: No such file or directory: can't open '/dev/usb/lp1'

Code:

ashley@HPLP:~$ lpinfo -v
network lpd
network ipps
network https
network http
network ipp
network ipp14
network socket
network beh
network smb
direct usb://EPSON/XP-100%20Series?serial=5144534B3030373813&interface=1

I have also installed printer-driver-all metapackage via synaptic and epson-201204w driver from http://www.openprinting.org/printer/...-XP-100_Series.

I would be really grateful if anyone could help me out.

**AshNova** · April 17th, 2013

bump

**AshNova** · April 20th, 2013

I've managed to get the printer working but not the scanner. Anyway here's what I did :

When I installed Steam, I noticed a lot of my 12.04.02 xorg packages had been downgraded.

So I removed Steam did autoremove and did this :

Code:

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-lts-quantal linux-generic-lts-quantal

Besides reverting my packages to their previous state, it also upgraded my kernel version from 3.2 something to 3.5.0-27-generic.

Then I installed the printing driver for the XP-100 from http://www.openprinting.org/printer/...-XP-100_Series and installed CUPS via synaptic.

I think you can also get the linux printing and scanning driver from this website when you search under "XP-100" and "Linux" :

http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/searchModuleFromResult

However even after I've installed the scanning driver, associated data file and app, I can't get the my laptop to detect the scanner part of the printer as anything other than "Epson unknown".

Will update if I get the scanner to work.

**pdc** · April 21st, 2013

so for a scanner driver I would go here

http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/du...d2d6d8b481d435

......as in thumbnail.....

and download and install

1) iscan-data_1.22.0-1_all.deb ...............because Epson say install the data file first ...........

then

2) iscan_2.29.1-5~usb0.1.ltdl7_amd64.deb .....ltd7 is for newer kernels........

and

3) userg_revQ_e.pdf is the english language version of the instructions

page 11 of the Guide suggests how to fix any identification issues.............

let us know if any of this is any help

**AshNova** · April 21st, 2013

Hi pdc,

I did as you suggested however iscan ("Could not send command to scanner. Check the scanner's status ") for me does not work. However, simple-scan installed via Synaptic does. Thank you

Just for reference, I've also installed :

sane
python-imaging-sane
libsane
sane-utils
libsane-extras
libsane-extras-common
libsane-common