I got a new Epson printer, but it doesn’t have drivers to setup in Ubuntu. I don’t know where to start. Used a USB cable to connect, the printer also has wifi. When I added the printer in settings. Three printer icons came up, but none of them work when I try to print a B&W pdf file.

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I shortly search-engined for that model and found "works with your iPad". Then I stopped reading and concluded that it must be AirPrint-enabled and support IPP.

Which in turn means:

1. You should connect it to your WiFi.
2. Run the ippfind command.
3. See which "device URI" that command returns for you.
   Example: in my network I see ipp://HPA0B3CCF051B9.local:631/ipp/printer returned for a HP printer.

4. Run this command in your terminal, using the device URI for your Epson:

   sudo lpadmin -p epson -v <the-device-URI-returned-by-ippfind> -E -m everywhere

This should install a print queue named 'epson' and using an auto-generated PPD that takes into account all the responses which the printer returned on an automatically run Get-Printer-Attributes IPP query.

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