Epson and AVASYS to launch automatic printer driver download service for Linux
Alexandre 
31. Mar, 2011
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Epson and AVASYS announced today plans to launch a service that will enable the automatic downloading of printer drivers by simply connecting an Epson inkjet printer to a Linux powered computer.
The service is supposed to start at the end of April 2011 along with Ubuntu 11.04 which will be the first distribution to provide this feature. it is based on Open Printing Database and will work for any Linux Standard Base compliant Linux distribution. A total of 268 Epson inkjet printer models manufactured since 2005 will be supported.
Since Ubuntu is not Linux, (but only one distribution between others), I hope EPSON gives ability to ALL distributions to perform this task
there are many ways to do this
Well, if it’s available in Ubuntu, it’s available anywhere (so naively :)). What’s more important, in my opinion, is how other vendors respond (if they do).