I am trying to install a driver for epson L360 on my Raspberry Pi 3 (running Pixel). I have the following two deb files from the epson website. Which one should I be using?
epson-inkjet-printer-201401w_1.0.0-1lsb3.2_amd64.deb epson-inkjet-printer-201401w_1.0.0-1lsb3.2_i386.deb
Which printer driver do I use? I386 or amd64?
Neither. "i386" is also known as x86; "amd64" is also known as x86-64.
All Pi's are ARM variants, and not compatible with the x86 ISAs. The Pi 3 is ARMv8, which is backward compatible with ARMv6 (the single core Pis) and ARMv7 (the Pi 2). For this reason Raspbian is ARMv6, meaning any software you run on it must be compiled for that. There are a wider variety of ARMv7 OS distributions available for the Pi 2 and 3. It is possible to run a 64-bit ARMv8 (aka. "aarch64") on the Pi 3, but this should still be considered experimental as it seems the kernel does not support all of the SoC's peripherals and other components on the board.
For the most part manufacturers do not distribute ARM drivers. It is the most common ISA used on mobile devices such as smartphones, but any drivers used there are unlikely to be compatible with available Pi operating systems.
In short you are out of luck.
I installed additional packages and used L210's driver. It seems to work.
sudo apt-get install foomatic-filters
sudo apt-get install foomatic-db-engine
sudo apt-get install printer-driver-escpr
EPSON_L360_Series EPSON L360 Series Epson L210 - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.11 Idle
apt since they will be properly compiled for the platform.
I've got something that might work. Can't test it as I haven't got that kind of printer. It's based on this.
You'll likely need to install a bunch of things first
sudo apt install lsb-base build-essential automake autoconf system-config-printer libcups2-dev libcupsimage2-dev cups alien
Download the epson-inkjet-printer-201401w-1.0.0-1lsb3.2.src.rpm, then extract it:
rpm2cpio epson-inkjet-printer-201401w-1.0.0-1lsb3.2.src.rpm | cpio -idmv
Extract the filter:
tar xvzf epson-inkjet-printer-filter-1.0.0.tar.gz
Build it:
cd epson-inkjet-printer-filter-1.0.0
libtoolize --force --copy
aclocal
autoconf
automake --add-missing
./configure --prefix=/opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201401w
make
sudo make install
cd ..
Now extract the other archive, epson-inkjet-printer-201401w-1.0.0.tar.gz and move the support files into place:
tar xvzf epson-inkjet-printer-201401w-1.0.0.tar.gz
sudo mv epson-inkjet-printer-201401w-1.0.0/ppds /opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201401w
sudo mv epson-inkjet-printer-201401w-1.0.0/watermark /opt/epson-inkjet-printer-201401w
Now try installing the printer again - you should be able to use the graphical printer configuration. Again: I don't know if this works, as I don't have the printer, but at least it builds the binary filter and puts the PPD files where the system might expect them.
