[sane-devel] Re: Epson CX11 network scan support?

Tue May 23 08:38:05 UTC 2006

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 08:26:34AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> Louis-David Mitterrand <vindex+lists-sane-devel at apartia.org> writes:
> 
> > 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, this looks promising.

Will this work soon be integrated into sane?