[sane-devel] Epson CX11 network scan support?

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Louis-David Mitterrand <vindex+lists-sane-devel at apartia.org> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Does sane support network scanning for the Espon CX11 MFC printer?
>
> There is a sane "epkowa" backend which seem to support it in USB mode, 
> as well as Epson's "iscan" linux package, but I can't find any way to 
> scan from the network. 

Both the epkowa backend and iscan (which includes the epkowa backend)
do not support scanning via a direct TCP/IP connection.  They support
scanning via a scan server (saned with net backend) only.

IIRC, Alessandro Zummo hacked up something to make scanning via TCP/IP
work.  See 

  http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2006-January/015986.html

for details.

> Thanks in advance for any help,

Hope this helps,
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