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<p>As Andy Bennett is suggesting, perhaps try to eliminate the
possibility that it's the cable, maybe try a different usb cable.
I guess the ESP5 can only connect with usb (not network) so you
can't try alternative connecting methods?</p>
<p>After that I think I would be trying to look at debug logs to see
which bit of sane is giving the "communications failure" message.
Then we might be able to see in the source code what might cause
that message.</p>
<p>I think you can do a scan in terminal something like this</p>
<p> root@acer:~# scanimage -L 2>sanedebug.txt</p>
<p>in order to catch the debug log in the file sanedebug.txt. It's
possible to vary the amount of detail in the file.<br>
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<p>Paul<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07/12/2020 21:23, Don Sutter wrote:<br>
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<p>Thank you Paul - It's nice to see you're still around*! I hope
I'm not the only one left in existence with a Kodak ESP Printer
...<br>
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<p>After power cycling the printer, Simple Scan repeats the same
sequence - it initializes and starts a scan and then terminates
with a "communications failure" message. The failure freezes my
mouse for about 10 seconds after the failure message if that's
any help<br>
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<p>Thanks again<br>
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<p>Don<br>
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cannot really support this project anymore. I no longer have any
Kodak printers running, so it's difficult to do any tests to try
and reproduce anyone's problems. These drivers have been part of
cups, for printing, and sane, for scanning, for many years now.
It might be possible to get some support from the cups or sane
projects, particularly if the problem is likely to be something
to do with the filter chain rather than the driver.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/5/20 10:15 AM, Paul Newall via
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<p>Don,</p>
<p>I will try to help. I am the writer of the backend, however
two things that might make it difficult for me to help are:</p>
<p>1. It is a long time since I last used a Kodak aio. 2. I have
never personally used an ESP 5.</p>
<p>Questions:</p>
<p>After you power cycle, are you able to scan with simple scan?
Or does it always fail?</p>
<p>How are you connecting? USB? - I don't know what the options
are for the ESP 5.</p>
<p>regards,</p>
<p>Paul<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"> Greetings -</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">I’m getting a
“communucations error” using simple-scan with my Kodak ESP 5
AiO scanner.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">I can hear
the scanner start but soon after get the error message. I
have to power cycle the printer to get it working again.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">The Kodak
machine works perfectly when connected to either a Windows 7
or Windows 10 machine, whether they’re real machines or VM
(VirtualBox).</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">I’m hoping
there is someone here that can help me figure out what’s
going on.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">Thanks in
advance</p>
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