Epson Printer and Scanner

Epson Printer and Scanner

Epson XP-4200

[Working well in Xfce 4.18]

Downloaded the driver from Epson
In the Download folder Renamed it to .rpm from .rmp

 Next open a terminal

 Type su -

 press the enter key

 Type your root password

 press enter

 Type cd Downloads

 press enter

 type rpm -i epson-inkjet-printer-escpr-1.7.7-1lsb3.2.x86_64.rpm

 press enter

I received a message that Cups had turned off, Cups had turned back on, and one other I don't remember.

Next I closed the terminal and went to Configure Your Computer off of the Menu and went to Hardware.

I selected Printers, then did Add Printer and followed the instructions.

Scanner for Epson XP-4200

[Working well in Xfce 4.18]

Turn on the printer/scanner/copier.

Setup your scanner by installing Xsane and/or simple scan and/or skanlite, if they are not already installed.

as the root user, in your favorite editor, edit the file /etc/sane.d/dll.conf

Comment out epson by adding # so that it looks like this #epson
then un-comment #epson2 by removing # so that it looks like this epson2
save your changes

Next edit /etc/sane.d/epson2.conf
Open a terminal and enter lsusb and find your printer/scanner from the list

If your epson is connected by USB Cable

usb <vendor ID> <product ID>

For example mine shows Bus 001 Device 010: ID 04a9:1854 EPSON, Inc. 4200 series

Note! The two id's are separated by a colon, you will see something like 04b8:11b0

If your printer/scanner is connected by wifi
in eposn2.conf the very last line should be net autodiscovery or assign your printer a static IP then it should be net 192.xxx.x.xxx (the assigned static IP address).

save your changes

Now go into Application Menu>Graphics and select Epson Scan 2
Note!   Within the Epson scan menu make sure that the Folder box located above the Preview and Scan buttons has an existing folder name in it (example: Desktop)