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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.

Driver seems to have been updated. This worked for me:

Change pkgver to 1.0.34

Change source to https://download3.ebz.epson.net/dsc/f/03/00/09/36/03/b63e3de102ff44e2fa4789b6a75e97877f4e0c41/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2-1.0.34-1lsb3.2.src.rpm

Change first sha256sums to a7f6705df50f3f7a862fadd91e4e65a3f1041f4aa42025c627a5e52d460a8c61

I'm still getting an error 404 when installing it:

ERROR: Failure while downloading https://download3.ebz.epson.net/dsc/f/03/00/09/28/13/7f23b5f75b434571f34a32c8f77675b42bdd9888/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2-1.0.32-1lsb3.2.src.rpm

I needed to install this and like lilmike said, 1.0.31 doesn't work.

Edit pkgbuild:

Change pkgver to 1.0.32

Change source to https://download3.ebz.epson.net/dsc/f/03/00/09/28/13/7f23b5f75b434571f34a32c8f77675b42bdd9888/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2-1.0.32-1lsb3.2.src.rpm

Change first sha256sums to f5b9b0f5f663a8fb66bef9084cf6b93d46ceca728e4feb05fac515ef02b4b2a5

For future versions, new source here http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/du/02/DriverDownloadInfo.do?LG2=EN&CN2=&DSCMI=92813&DSCCHK=6791c52c285c2f61cc5c45e8928b3954c629351d

The download returns error 404. Just FYI.

Just a suggestion: could you add the following keywords to the package, it will make finding the package for specific printers easier:

EP-50V Series, EP-879A Series, EP-880A Series, EP-881A Series, ET-3700 Series, ET-3750 Series, ET-4750 Series, ET-8700 Series, ET-M1140 Series, ET-M1180 Series, ET-M2140 Series, ET-M3140 Series, ET-M3170 Series, ET-M3180 Series, EW-M630T Series, EW-M670FT Series, L6160 Series, L6170 Series, L6190 Series, M1180 Series, M2140 Series, M3180 Series, PM-520 Series, PX-M380F, PX-M381FL, PX-M5080F Series, PX-M5081F Series, PX-M680F Series, PX-M7070FX, PX-M7110F, PX-M7110FP, PX-M780F Series, PX-M781F Series, PX-M880FX, PX-M884F, PX-M886FL, PX-S380, PX-S381L, PX-S5010 Series, PX-S5080 Series, PX-S7070X, PX-S7110, PX-S7110P, PX-S880X, PX-S884, WF-2860 Series, WF-3720 Series, WF-3730 Series, WF-4720 Series, WF-4730 Series, WF-4740 Series, WF-7210 Series, WF-7710 Series, WF-7720 Series, WF-C5210 Series, WF-C5290 Series, WF-C5290BA, WF-C529R Series, WF-C529RB, WF-C5710 Series, WF-C5790 Series, WF-C5790BA, WF-C579R Series, WF-C579RB, WF-C8190 Series, WF-C8190B, WF-C8610 Series, WF-C8690 Series, WF-C8690B, WF-C869R Series, WF-M5298 Series, WF-M5299 Series, WF-M5799 Series, XP-15000 Series, XP-5100 Series, XP-6000 Series, XP-6100 Series, XP-8500 Series

Here's a patch for current version on epson website:

diff --git a/.SRCINFO b/.SRCINFO
deleted file mode 100644
index e7d4c44..0000000
--- a/.SRCINFO
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-pkgbase = epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2
-   pkgdesc = Epson Inkjet Printer Driver 2 (ESC/P-R) for Linux
-   pkgver = 1.0.27
-   pkgrel = 1
-   url = http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/?OSC=LX
-   arch = i686
-   arch = x86_64
-   arch = armv6h
-   arch = armv7h
-   license = GPL2
-   depends = cups
-   depends = ghostscript
-   optdepends = imagescan: scanner support
-   options = !libtool
-   source = https://download3.ebz.epson.net/dsc/f/03/00/08/71/45/3c00267c241e8cb90f2167a27c4e9f75828e5e66/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2-1.0.27-1lsb3.2.src.rpm
-   source = bug_x86_64.patch
-   sha256sums = 21975eaa03c43b07e88223d39eb6df3ca526f22243bc6e373fcc36280607c297
-   sha256sums = 44160b2ef140e97137d65c4db7a50cfe40399ab8691caaeaf43c08f758b8c545
-
-pkgname = epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2
-
diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index ea1a8c1..fbb6b6f 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -1,16 +1,17 @@
 pkgname=epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2
-pkgver=1.0.27
+pkgver=1.0.28
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="Epson Inkjet Printer Driver 2 (ESC/P-R) for Linux"
-arch=('i686' 'x86_64' 'armv6h' 'armv7h')
+arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
 url="http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/?OSC=LX"
 license=('GPL2')
 depends=('cups' 'ghostscript')
 optdepends=('imagescan: scanner support')
 options=('!libtool')
-source=('https://download3.ebz.epson.net/dsc/f/03/00/08/71/45/3c00267c241e8cb90f2167a27c4e9f75828e5e66/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2-1.0.27-1lsb3.2.src.rpm'
+source=(#'epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2-1.0.28-1lsb3.2.src.rpm'
+   'https://download3.ebz.epson.net/dsc/f/03/00/08/93/16/e484dad0996111ecd76d58de992765967bfe6319/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2-1.0.28-1lsb3.2.src.rpm'
         'bug_x86_64.patch')
-sha256sums=('21975eaa03c43b07e88223d39eb6df3ca526f22243bc6e373fcc36280607c297'
+sha256sums=('6d1b7253a424be230e1dc12017c7b84a69cd6f2d8649ef468aa1dc84206a27c8'
             '44160b2ef140e97137d65c4db7a50cfe40399ab8691caaeaf43c08f758b8c545')

 prepare() {

Epson printer driver download page seems to be broken quite a while now :'(

Thanks @uwe, that fix worked on my machine, updated the PKGBUILD @lukas.fink1 your fix seemed to not work for me, same error like before

It does not work for me. I had to add one line in "build" section after "cd":

autoreconf -f -i

Got it from here: https://github.com/apereo/mod_auth_cas/issues/97

What worked for me was changing the build function to this:

build() {
  cd "$pkgname-$pkgver"
  aclocal
  autoconf

  ./configure --prefix=/usr \
              --with-cupsfilterdir=/usr/lib/cups/filter \
              --with-cupsppddir=/usr/share/ppd
  make
}

(I don’t know how to do newlines here so: https://pastebin.com/3ARnHjqy) This seems to rebuild aclocal.m4 and configure with the installed version of the GNU Build System.