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In reply to ValdikSS comment:

Note that Epson license (COPYING.EPSON) imposes many restrictions, such as personal and internal business usage only, prohibition of distribution of the software, and "you agree not to place the Software onto or into a shared environment accessible via a public network such as the Internet or otherwise accessible by others outside the single [physical] location"

Yes, which is why the Epson Inkjet printer driver 2 for ESC/P-R or "epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2" is only available as a PKGBUILD. Only the PKGBUILD is publicly available, not the driver itself, but with it everyone can easily obtain and build the driver for themselves. The license is not for the PKGBUILD. To uphold the Epson license however, the PKGBUILD references it correctly, and it is every ones own responsibility to respect Epson's license and to comply with it.

With every release I update the keywords (see Package Details above) containing a list of all Epson printer series supported by this driver. Additionally, SUPPORTED-PRINTERS at the GitLab repository gitlab.com/at.gentoo.repo/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2 also contains a list of supported printers.

Most Epson Inkjet printers are covered by either this package or epson-inkjet-printer-escpr. If your printer is not supported by this package, be sure to check the other one. You may also want to consult the Wiki, specifically CUPS and CUPS/Printer-specific problems#Epson.

Note: all packages from AUR require base-devel, please read Arch User Repository as a user or PKGBUILD#makedepends for details on PKGBUILD.

Epson just likes to 404 their download links immediately when they are updating anything. Annoying.

Updated to 1.0.16 and working again.

All of the Epson download links here seem to have stopped working (as have many of the links to download Epson scanner software for Linux). Does anyone know what is going on? And would any kind soul be able to let me have a copy of the current version (ideally .deb for 64-bit Ubuntu, but I can probably cope with other formats)? At present after an upgrade I'm unable to print.

New version 1.0.15-1 at https://download3.ebz.epson.net/dsc/f/03/00/07/27/77/89ad82d02fc769f9c8e996dedbe64b2337b99ea2/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2-1.0.15-1lsb3.2.src.rpm with the sha256sum 63b968c17c582f509b62869e1b8c85a85973a6e051834dab1105fced8b1372e7

updated to 1.0.13

I must have missed the "window of opportunity" to install 1.0.12-1. I now get a "404 not found" when installing this version. And I see that 1.0.13-1 is the current version on Epson's support site. Thanks!

thanks for the hint, updated to 1.0.12-1

It seems there is a new version 1.0.12-1 at https://download3.ebz.epson.net/dsc/f/03/00/07/02/77/9f162f84b434e8dd8b94e7c1f1e6a5961637d860/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2-1.0.12-1lsb3.2.src.rpm<br> I don't know if there is a reason to hold back. But if not, could someone please update this package? Many Thanks!

updated to 1.0.11-1

I think there is a new version 1.0.11-1 at https://download3.ebz.epson.net/dsc/f/03/00/06/92/76/61c3f3b4bce0dca879a8ce26c175498d1f6496ba/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2-1.0.11-1lsb3.2.src.rpm with the sha256sum 84b81e68a36fc1ad6dab980ba3b16bc0827b98d9071ee7dc80801cbf47c1e8e2. Printing a test page seems to work. I'm sorry if this update was held back on purpose, but if not, could someone please update this package? Thank you!

Thanks @hcartiaux ! Driver works now with my ET-4750 :)