Setting up the Epson DX6050 with Feisty Fawn
Printing and Scanning - Ubuntu, Feisty Fawn
Categories: Hardware
I just got home from purchasing an Epson DX6050 Printer/Scanner, the friendly staff at the store answered my question "Does the printer work with Ubuntu?" with a helpful "What's ubuntu?". Ahhh well.
So first things first, setting up the printer, I use KDE so thats what I am explaining here.
1) Open K-Menu (click on the K Symbol)
2) Select "System Settings"
3) Click Printers
4) Click Add (Add Printer Class) ("The Add Printer Wizard" should start)
5) Next
6) Choose "Local printer (parallel,serial, USB)" -> Next
7) Expand "Local System" - USB - Epson Stylus DX6000 USB #1
8) Select EPSON Stylus DX6000 -> Next
9) Search and click on Epson under Manufactures
10) Search and click on "Stylus Color 860" -> Next
11) On the Driver Selection pane choose "Epson Stylus Color 860 Foomatics/stc2.upp" -> Next
12) Click On "Test" to print a test page.
13) Continue accepting the defaults until you come to the "General Information" part.
14) Assign the Printer a name. eg. MyAwesomePrinter -> Next
15) Click Finish - The Printer is now setup
That was that, I must admit I just guessed the driver and did not test any of the other options so if someone out their knows that a different driver works much better please let me know.
Getting scanning to work required modifying two files. So let's get cracking ;)
Add the following so that the last lines in the file look like this:
# Epson Stlus DX 6050
SYSFS{idVendor}=="04b8", SYSFS{idProduct}=="082e", MODE="664",GROUP="scanner"
LABEL="libsane_rules_end"
Then edit the second file:
After that reboot Ubuntu. (I am sure i could have restarted some daemon to pick up the changes but I have no idea which one, besides old windows habits die hard.) Maybe someone can write and let me know how to circumvent the reboot.
After following the above steps the DX6050 shows up when starting XSane Image Scanner and I can print from any program.
Hope that helps some people out there with there Feisty Fawn setup.
cheers
Marcel
So first things first, setting up the printer, I use KDE so thats what I am explaining here.
1) Open K-Menu (click on the K Symbol)
2) Select "System Settings"
3) Click Printers
4) Click Add (Add Printer Class) ("The Add Printer Wizard" should start)
5) Next
6) Choose "Local printer (parallel,serial, USB)" -> Next
7) Expand "Local System" - USB - Epson Stylus DX6000 USB #1
8) Select EPSON Stylus DX6000 -> Next
9) Search and click on Epson under Manufactures
10) Search and click on "Stylus Color 860" -> Next
11) On the Driver Selection pane choose "Epson Stylus Color 860 Foomatics/stc2.upp" -> Next
12) Click On "Test" to print a test page.
13) Continue accepting the defaults until you come to the "General Information" part.
14) Assign the Printer a name. eg. MyAwesomePrinter -> Next
15) Click Finish - The Printer is now setup
That was that, I must admit I just guessed the driver and did not test any of the other options so if someone out their knows that a different driver works much better please let me know.
Getting Scanning Happening:
I must admit that getting the scanning to work was something I had written off right from the beginning. Fortunately my girlfriend can read french and she was able to translate a french forum post that according to Google would help me get scanning happening, and Indeed it did.Getting scanning to work required modifying two files. So let's get cracking ;)
sudo vim /etc/udev/rules.d/45-libsane.rules
Add the following so that the last lines in the file look like this:
# Epson Stlus DX 6050
SYSFS{idVendor}=="04b8", SYSFS{idProduct}=="082e", MODE="664",GROUP="scanner"
LABEL="libsane_rules_end"
Then edit the second file:
sudo vim /etc/sane.d/epson.confAdd the following to the last line of the file:
usb 0x4b8 0x082e
After that reboot Ubuntu. (I am sure i could have restarted some daemon to pick up the changes but I have no idea which one, besides old windows habits die hard.) Maybe someone can write and let me know how to circumvent the reboot.
After following the above steps the DX6050 shows up when starting XSane Image Scanner and I can print from any program.
Hope that helps some people out there with there Feisty Fawn setup.
cheers
Marcel
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Re: Setting up the Epson DX6050 with Feisty Fawn
Thanks for the information about getting the scanner work. After you modify files in /etc/udev all you need to do is to execute command
gksudo /etc/init.d/udev restart
About printing: I'm running Ubuntu 6.06 and I'm getting great results with Epson CX5800 driver (Epson DX6050 should be roughly identical to DX6000 which should be roughly identical to CX5900 as far as I know. I guess that the CX5800 driver could be a nice fit). I'm using Super Photo quality setting in printer settings. (Actually I installed it as two different printers and one of those has draft mode always set and the another has the best quality settings I can find.)
gksudo /etc/init.d/udev restart
About printing: I'm running Ubuntu 6.06 and I'm getting great results with Epson CX5800 driver (Epson DX6050 should be roughly identical to DX6000 which should be roughly identical to CX5900 as far as I know. I guess that the CX5800 driver could be a nice fit). I'm using Super Photo quality setting in printer settings. (Actually I installed it as two different printers and one of those has draft mode always set and the another has the best quality settings I can find.)
Posted by Mikko Rantalainen on September 20, 2007 at 6:54 PM