Having trouble printer EPSON L3250 Fedora 40

Hello:
Is my first time using Fedora and I would like to use it full time, but I NEED to print documents at work, it was impossible for me to print that is showed in the screen. The problem is that print strange things, like codes, too much letters and numbers, but not the document that is showed in the screen.

in this example, i was triying to print from a .PDF reader.

Thank you for your help

Is it using the correct driver? Open a web browser, go to https://localhost:631/printers and check if it’s using the “Epson Inkjet Printer Driver (ESC/P-R) for Linux.” If it’s not, install the package epson-inkjet-printer-escpr and reinstall your printer.

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The Epson L3250 supports Epson ESC/P-R and ESC/P Raster formats, but your image shows a Postscript document printed as text using HP’s Linux Imaging and Printing software (HPLIP) driver with ghostscript.

Are you using WiFi to connect to the printer?

Please tell us how you configured printing in Fedora 40. Did you install any of the 3 epson-inkjet-printer-escpr packages (in a terminal, run dnf info epson-inkjet-printer-escpr\*)?

Epson doesn’t support Linux. As mentioned by @vrkvdd, Fedora has open source epson-inkjet-printer-escpr for “older models”. The description mentions a list of supported models at http://avasys.jp/english/linux_e/ but that link appears to be dead. “Newer” printers use epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2 mentioned as far back as 1991, but please see dnf info epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2 for details.

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Thank you very much. :slightly_smiling_face: I don´t know if everything is ok, but i hope.
I’ll return at work on tuesday, let’s see what’s happens…

Here are some screenshots of things I’ve made.


Thank you very much… :slightly_smiling_face: I’ll prove it at work on tuesday

Please post pre-formatted text as text using copy and paste with the </> button from the row at the top of the text entry window. Images are not searchable and can be difficult to read on a laptop screen.

Please look at man cups. This has an overview of the printing workflow with links to the CUPS administration page on your system and support sites that may have users familiar with your printer. The page also mentions that support for legacy printers is moving to ippeveprinter (from the cups-printerapp package).

CUPS printer drivers, backends, and PPD files are deprecated and will no longer be supported in a future feature release of CUPS. Printers that do not support IPP can be supported using applications such as ippeveprinter(1).

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rodarnux@fedora:~$ sudo dnf install sudo cups-printerapp
[sudo] contraseña para rodarnux: 
Fedora 40 - x86_64 - Updates                     55 kB/s |  23 kB     00:00    
Fedora 40 - x86_64 - Upescribe o pega el código aquídates                    191 kB/s | 1.1 MB     00:05    
Última comprobación de caducidad de metadatos hecha hace 0:00:04, el dom 28 abr 2024 15:51:08.
El paquete sudo-1.9.15-2.p5.fc40.x86_64 ya está instalado.
Dependencias resueltas.
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 Paquete               Arquitectura Versión                 Repositorio    Tam.
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Instalando:
 cups-printerapp       x86_64       1:2.4.7-13.fc40         updates       116 k

Resumen de la transacción
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Instalar  1 Paquete

Tamaño total de la descarga: 116 k
Tamaño instalado: 224 k
¿Está de acuerdo [s/N]?: s
Descargando paquetes:
cups-printerapp-2.4.7-13.fc40.x86_64.rpm        106 kB/s | 116 kB     00:01    
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Total                                            84 kB/s | 116 kB     00:01     
Ejecutando verificación de operación
Verificación de operación exitosa.
Ejecutando prueba de operaciones
Prueba de operación exitosa.
Ejecutando operación
  Preparando          :                                                     1/1 
  Instalando          : cups-printerapp-1:2.4.7-13.fc40.x86_64              1/1 
  Ejecutando scriptlet: cups-printerapp-1:2.4.7-13.fc40.x86_64              1/1 

Instalado:
  cups-printerapp-1:2.4.7-13.fc40.x86_64                                        

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```   Thank you so much for your help.  The printer works correctly.

The printer works correctly. Than you so much.

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