Use Epson C1100(n) with Arch Linux

• Tested with Arch 3.4.4-2 x64

• Cups should conveniently be present so that only the driver must be installed.

• There is a documentation for Ubuntu here.
• In Arch it's the same but driver installation is much easier by using the AUR.

• If you have installed it, aurget can find the necessary package and download it.

aurget -S epson-alc1100-filter

• Or you download the PKGBUILD manually

mkdir epson-alc1100-filter
cd epson-alc1100-filter
wget http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/epson-alc1100-filter/epson-alc1100-filter/PKGBUILD

• To create an package you can install typ in:

makepkg -s

• After the package compiled completely you can install it.

pacman -U epson-alc1100-filter-1.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz

• Before we enter the Epson in our cups, we need a package that convert the printing order in a format that is understandable for the printer.

sudo pacman -S foomatic-filters
sudo /etc/rc.d/cups restart

• Now we can configure the printer in cups by using the Webinterface at localhost:631