Printing: customizing PPDs, or finding the right forum to ask

[Stewart C. Russell]

On 13-06-17 05:17 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 
> Well that's convenient.

Sure was. It works now, but it was a pain in the arse to set up:

1.    Put the B-size/11×17" paper in Tray 1 (the upper one), and the
Letter paper in Tray 2. This, unfortunately, matters — the driver that
can print large format can only access the upper tray. On the setup menu
on the printer console, tell the printer which tray holds what size of
paper.

2.    Install the epson-inkjet-printer-escpr driver; it should be in the
standard Ubuntu repos. Define a printer (wf7520-lf, for example) that
uses this driver. Set the paper size to "US B 11 x 17 in".

3.    Ensure that the lsb and lsb-printing packages are installed: sudo
apt-get install lsb lsb-printing

4.    Download and install the non-free epson-201115w driver from the
EPSON Download Center*. Define a printer (I used wf-7520 for the name)
using this driver, making sure that the correct PPD
(epson-inkjet-printer 1.0.0-1lsb3.2 (Seiko Epson Corporation LSB 3.2))
is used. Set it up to use Letter paper, and (important!) set the source
to Paper Cassette 2.

To print to large format, use the command:

  lp -d wf7520-lf -o PageSize=USB file.pdf

To print regular size, just send the job to the wf-7520 device.

cheers,
 Stewart

*: http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/?OSC=LX
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