[sane-devel] Ricoh with Airprint

Steven Santos steven at simplycircus.com
Fri Feb 19 16:26:09 GMT 2021


I don't have access to these machines, but I am VERY happy to see the
driver repackaged to work!

Maybe you will have sucess doing the same with the other driver as well?

Let me know if I can be of any help.

On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 11:23 AM Thierry Huchard <thierry at ordissimo.com>
wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> I repackaged the package "sp-330-3710-series-scanner-1.00-amd64.deb"
> (https://www.grosfichiers.com/7Vg3TavXv8g) to make it compatible with
> recent Ubuntu.
> I forgot to send it back to everyone!
> The package installs and uninstalls cleanly. The file is placed in the
> right places and the libs links are Ok.
> You have to test it!
>
> Thierry
>
> Le 2021-02-19 17:08, Steven Santos a écrit :
> > I found this sane driver for the SP 377.  Its for Ubuntu 14.10, but it
> > should still work
> >
> >
> http://support.ricoh.com/bb/html/dr_ut_e/re2/model/sp320sn/sp320sn.htm#os-driver-list
> >
> >
> > Direct driver link:
> >
> https://support.ricoh.com/bb/pub_e/dr_ut_e/0001299/0001299188/V101/r79049en.exe
> >
> > Perhaps if you contact them (your company presumably has an account),
> > they may consider open sourcing the sane driver...
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 7:25 AM Thiago Milczarek Sayão
> > <thiago.sayao at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Yeah, the package is broken on installation, they ship it on a .exe
> >> with a .deb inside, and it's outdated. But it works for the 3710.
> >>
> >> Does not work for the SP 377sfnwx (which my company also uses).
> >>
> >> This worries me as it seems Ricoh gives no importance to other
> >> systems than Windows.
> >>
> >> So I thought "let's use their airprint". It's totally broken, does
> >> not even work on macosx.
> >>
> >> But thank you for the suggestion :)
> >>
> >> Em sex., 19 de fev. de 2021 às 01:03, Steven Santos
> >> <steven at simplycircus.com> escreveu:
> >>
> >> Have you tried the SANE driver Ricoh provides?
> >>
> >>
> >
> http://support.ricoh.com/bb/html/dr_ut_e/lan_e/model/sp3710sf/sp3710sfen.htm#Ubuntu%2016.04%20LTS(x86-64)
> >>
> >> On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 1:00 PM Thiago Milczarek Sayão
> >> <thiago.sayao at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Some days ago I got some help from Thierry and Alexander on getting
> >> the Ricoh (SP 3710) working with sane-escl, sane-airscan.
> >>
> >> Seems Ricoh scanners have bad software, as we don't get it to work
> >> after many tries.
> >>
> >> I managed to install osx catalina on my ubuntu machine through the
> >> "sosumi" (uses kvm) project.
> >>
> >> The idea is to capture the network traffic with wireshark and
> >> discover what "mambo jambo"  Ricoh is doing.
> >>
> >> I have been able to detect and add the scanner, but when I try to
> >> scan I get a  "Failed to open a connection to the device (-21345)".
> >>
> >> Since I don't own a Ricoh printer (my company does), it's behind a
> >> firewall. The admin did clear everything on the printer IP address.
> >>
> >> Any ideas what might be wrong?
> >>
> >> The Ricoh printer settings does have an AirPrint section.
> >>
> >> -- Thiago.
>
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