[sane-devel] Ricoh with Airprint

[Thierry Huchard]

Le 2021-02-19 21:51, Steven Santos a écrit :
> 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?

Here are the two backends
1 - sp-330-3710-series-scanner
2 - sp-300series_Scanner

https://www.grosfichiers.com/HymZCvq4y93

I do this to you!

Thierry

> 
> 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 with a .deb inside, and it's outdated.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.