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Offline jbander

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Love Core plus but no drivers for either of my printers
« on: June 25, 2014, 12:54:24 AM »
No drivers and can't quite figure out how to install printers. Would I be able to find printer drivers better with the tiny core debian program

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Re: Love Core plus but no drivers for either of my printers
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2014, 02:27:58 AM »
Maybe you could start by supplying the make and model of your printers?

Usually a combination of the cups and hplip extensions covers most printers, but depending on your setup, you might only need the libcups extension.

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Re: Love Core plus but no drivers for either of my printers
« Reply #2 on: June 26, 2014, 01:41:02 AM »
Thanks for the response, Brothers mfc j430w and epsen stylus photo r340 any ideas would be appreciated/

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Re: Love Core plus but no drivers for either of my printers
« Reply #3 on: June 26, 2014, 02:08:55 AM »
The brother support site offers linux driver downloads for the mfc-j430w in deb or rpm format - I would presume these work with cups, but you'll need to download them and take a look to be sure.

The epson support site states that they do not support linux, but they do offer a generic linux printer driver available in tar.gz format, which you'd need to compile. Again I would guess this works with cups, but you'd have to download it and check.
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