diff --git a/system/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2.SlackBuild b/system/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2.SlackBuild
index 5540965cfd..3f717ac052 100644
--- a/system/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2.SlackBuild
+++ b/system/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2.SlackBuild
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 cd $(dirname $0) ; CWD=$(pwd)
 
 PRGNAM=epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2
-VERSION=${VERSION:-1.2.15}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-1.2.18}
 EXTRABIT=1
 TARNAM=$PRGNAM-$VERSION-$EXTRABIT.tar.gz
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
@@ -101,10 +101,10 @@ find -L . \
   -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) -exec chmod 644 {} \;
 
 #leave next few lines in as reminder how to test incase epson break their drivers for 32bit again
-#BUGFIXED=yes
-#if [ x`objdump -f escprlib/lib/libescpr2_32.a |grep ^architecture |cut -d' ' -f-2 |sort -u|grep "x86-64"|wc -l` = "x1" ]; then
-#  BUGFIXED=no
-#fi
+BUGFIXED=yes
+if [ x`objdump -f escprlib/lib/libescpr2_32.a |grep ^architecture |cut -d' ' -f-2 |sort -u|grep "x86-64"|wc -l` = "x1" ]; then
+  BUGFIXED=no
+fi
 #next line added as slackware autocmake is higher than 1.15 so m4 files need regenerating for v>1.2.12
 autoreconf
 CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
@@ -139,3 +139,6 @@ cat $CWD/doinst.sh >$PKG/install/doinst.sh
 
 cd $PKG
 /sbin/makepkg -l y -c n $OUTPUT/$PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.$PKGTYPE
+if [ "$BUGFIXED" = "no" ]; then
+  echo "32bit builds will fail as epson has supplied a 64bit object file labelled as 32bit"
+fi
diff --git a/system/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2.info b/system/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2.info
index 2c05123606..c1e2033d3c 100644
--- a/system/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2.info
+++ b/system/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2"
-VERSION="1.2.15"
+VERSION="1.2.18"
 HOMEPAGE="http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/"
-DOWNLOAD="https://sourceforge.net/projects/slackbuildsdirectlinks/files/epson-printer/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2-1.2.15-1.src.rpm"
-MD5SUM="7b078750003cd29856077ece5f6ea5f9"
+DOWNLOAD="https://sourceforge.net/projects/slackbuildsdirectlinks/files/epson-printer/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2-1.2.18-1.src.rpm"
+MD5SUM="63b14385900496f4175f761079732f69"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES=""