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I have been trying to get my Epson Workforce 435 all in one wireless printer/scanner to work in Ubuntu 12.04 and no luck. For now, my OS is running within an Oracle Virtual Box VM. I have downloaded the following driver packages from Epson:

epson-inkjet-printer-201109w_1.0.0-1lsb3.2_i386.deb

epson-inkjet-printer-escpr_1.3.1-1lsb3.2_i386.deb

I installed both of them. I then used the printers menu item to install setup the printer. All goes well. But, when I print a test page the status message in the Document Status dialog box says:

Held for authentication

When I was adding the printer, I was prompted to enter my login and password. I don't understand.

Braiam
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Edgar Cohen
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Open a terminal window and stop the cups server:

sudo service cups stop

Then edit the printers.conf file with a good editor 'gedit' 

sudo vim /etc/cups/printers.conf

Near the top of file "/etc/cups/printers.conf" is a line like below

AuthInfoRequired username,password

Comment it out by inserting a "#" 

#AuthInfoRequired username,password

save the updates and restart the cups server

sudo service cups start
Zuko
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