It should be noted that there are similarly named packages, iscan and iscan-plugin-network in the regular repositories and the AUR, respectively, but the versions of these programs do not match the results from the search on the Epson support site.
So, the Arch experience allowed the Epson printer drivers, the Epson printer management utility, and the network scanning capability, whereas openSUSE only allowed the first of these. At the time I installed on Arch, the required Qt 4 libraries were not available, so the printer utility could not be installed.
#EPSON PRINTER DRIVERS LINUX DRIVER#
However, the openSUSE software portal, currently offers only the printer driver from Epson, and not the printer management utility, nor the software required for network scanning, and like the AUR does not offer the Epson PC-Fax software. OpenSUSE, like Arch offers a supplementary software sources through its software portal with Epson software.
#EPSON PRINTER DRIVERS LINUX MANUAL#
The more recent installation on Garuda, required no manual intervention the complete driver and utility installation with yay, and setup of the printer using the Plasma Settings printer configuration tool took two minutes. At the time I installed on Arch there were complications related to the PKGBUILD of the Qt 4 libraries available on the AUR, which are required by the Epson printer utility software, requiring me to manually edit the PKGBUILD. I installed the available software from the AUR, on Arch over fifteen months ago, and now on Garuda Linux. The only software package missing from the AUR is the PC-Fax driver and utility, which if desired can be downloaded from the Epson support site. The packages available for the Epson Workforce Pro WF-4740 from the AUR enable nearly full functionality of the multi-function printer on Arch and derivatives, namely the full printer features, including all of the available print job settings, scanning, including network scanning, and maintenance of the multi function through management utility software. One of the strengths of Arch is the availability of high quality packages for important software, including printer drivers and utilities.
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