[sane-devel] Paul Newall - Kodak ESP 5 AiO

[Don Sutter]

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 ...

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

Thanks again

Don



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I 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.

On 12/5/20 10:15 AM, Paul Newall via sane-devel wrote:
>
> Don,
>
> 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:
>
> 1. It is a long time since I last used a Kodak aio. 2. I have never 
> personally used an ESP 5.
>
> Questions:
>
> After you power cycle, are you able to scan with simple scan? Or does 
> it always fail?
>
> How are you connecting? USB? - I don't know what the options are for 
> the ESP 5.
>
> regards,
>
> Paul
>
>
> On 30/11/2020 19:43, Don Sutter wrote:
>>
>> Greetings -
>>
>>
>> I’m getting a “communucations error” using simple-scan with my Kodak 
>> ESP 5 AiO scanner.
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> The Kodak machine works perfectly when connected to either a Windows 
>> 7 or Windows 10 machine, whether they’re real machines or VM 
>> (VirtualBox).
>>
>>
>> I’m hoping there is someone here that can help me figure out what’s 
>> going on.
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>>
>> Don
>>
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