[sane-devel] Ricoh with Airprint

[Steven Santos]

Thierry,

 What you did in this case may be very useful for other people beyond these
2 specific drivers. Could you possibly do a little write-up on what you did
to accomplish this feat?

I would be more than happy to edit and otherwise help with the writing.

On Fri, Feb 19, 2021, 3:48 PM Thierry Huchard <thierry at ordissimo.com> wrote:

> Le 2021-02-19 21:18, Thiago Milczarek Sayão a écrit :
> > It works!
> >
> Okay,
> Theoretically it should work, I enclose the second package and for
> reminder hand over the first one.
>
> Thierry
>
> > Thanks
> >
> > Em sex., 19 de fev. de 2021 às 13:08, Steven Santos
> > <steven at simplycircus.com> escreveu:
> >
> >> 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 with a .deb inside, and it's outdated.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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