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deb, fixed the "test page won't print" glitch. In summary, removing the printer, adding Epson's official driver. I said yes → The test page prints, but is still using a CMY mixture in place of black. After adding, it asks if I want to print a test page.I added this, it said "searching for drivers". Search from this page instead (some sources say you should omit the operating system on the initial query).

Given the apparently poor behavior of this driver, that may as well be the case. Note that if you try to find this driver from Epson's main page, it will tell you Linux is unsupported.

I grabbed the epson-inkjet-printer-escpr_1.7.21-1lsb3.2_b driver from Epson's website, and installed it.

I deleted the current printer instance in the "Printers" control panel.

perhaps it is an issue with the default printer drivers? So, I'm running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Let me know if other info is needed as well as how to retrieve it Update 1: It's not (just) an issue with default vs.

It will not print a test page: I press "print test page" in the printer settings dialog, and a job is added and then immediately vanishes.

When it prints black, it uses a mix of CMY inks, not ok.I want to print a grayscale document using the black.Today, from a new laptop running 22.04, it doesn't work: The printer used to work on a similar laptop running 20.04. I'm dealing with an Epson XP-2105 printer. This is not a duplicate of this question, since that deals with a different printer, and has a different solution which I've already verified doesn't work.