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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.

is unfortunately not installable

"/var/tmp/pamac-build-genista/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2/PKGBUILD: Zeile 21: patch: Kommando nicht gefunden. ==> FEHLER: Ein Fehler geschah in prepare(). Breche ab..."

Manjaro 22.0.4 (6.1.12-1-manjaro) not installed, error with bug_x86_64.patch (pacman)

It doesn't work for L6190

6.0.7-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu, 03 Nov 2022 18:01:58 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Gnome 43.1

@electricprism yes it does. you can figure that out by going to http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/?OSC=LX and entering your printer model. Unfortunately, the keywords have a limit so not all models can be included there.

Does this include the ET-8500 driver?

unfortunately, the keywords field has a length limit which we have hit already

Can you add ET-M2170 to the keyword list?

This diff updates to version 1.1.45:

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index eb41dcf..de29a36 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 pkgname=epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2
-pkgver=1.1.44
+pkgver=1.1.45
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="Epson Inkjet Printer Driver 2 (ESC/P-R) for Linux"
 arch=('i686' 'x86_64' 'armv6h' 'armv7h')
@@ -8,17 +8,13 @@ license=('GPL2')
 depends=('cups' 'ghostscript')
 optdepends=('imagescan: scanner support')
 options=('!libtool')
-source=('https://download3.ebz.epson.net/dsc/f/03/00/13/27/79/3e6d56a8ef3ffa0f3ffb201eed684e051ccdf55b/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2-1.1.44-1lsb3.2.src.rpm'
-        'bug_x86_64.patch')
-sha256sums=('14e1699a3390468161249bbabbd42098dc19f0f41a9a4f1d95a994ca8cfb7a5e'
-            'ae480931863a195fb924fc5e5ea00478b3faa6cfb1507919d462f122be7d7084')
+source=('https://download3.ebz.epson.net/dsc/f/03/00/13/38/11/01e244e8529c5cbcec8d39220a9512d5e6c08eec/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2-1.1.45-1lsb3.2.src.rpm')
+sha256sums=('3195e7d5fb03dc3e96e6f957f8dc119302ed68146a4307bd9709c90b62fd2df9')

 prepare() {
   tar xvf "$pkgname-$pkgver"-1lsb3.2.tar.gz

   cd "$pkgname-$pkgver"
-
-  patch -p1 -i "${srcdir}/bug_x86_64.patch"
 }

 build() {