I've just bought a Epson ET-1810 and run into the same issue.
On a live boot of Linux Mint XFCE, driverless printing works exactly as expected: once wifi is set up via the app, the printer is available to print, no drivers installed.
In Debian Trixie XFCE, driverless printing is broken: the printer appears but doesn't work.
After much faffing about adding the printer manually, printing pages of garbage output, and installing extra packages, it did work via dnssd, as @bin discovered.
I'm going to download a live image of Trixie and see if I can pin down exactly why Mint works and Debian doesn't. My suspicion is it's down to Ubuntu having cups-filters 2 while Debian still has 1.28, although there are some other package differences.
I'll also try and reproduce the steps necessary to add a working printer.
I'll start a new topic and post my findings there.
On a live boot of Linux Mint XFCE, driverless printing works exactly as expected: once wifi is set up via the app, the printer is available to print, no drivers installed.
In Debian Trixie XFCE, driverless printing is broken: the printer appears but doesn't work.
After much faffing about adding the printer manually, printing pages of garbage output, and installing extra packages, it did work via dnssd, as @bin discovered.
I'm going to download a live image of Trixie and see if I can pin down exactly why Mint works and Debian doesn't. My suspicion is it's down to Ubuntu having cups-filters 2 while Debian still has 1.28, although there are some other package differences.
I'll also try and reproduce the steps necessary to add a working printer.
I'll start a new topic and post my findings there.
Statistics: Posted by FreewheelinFrank — 2025-12-30 10:59