[sane-devel] Epson All In One XP4100 - scanner problem

Ralph Little skelband at gmail.com
Mon Jul 5 17:31:27 BST 2021


Hi,

On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 8:23 AM Tony Morton <tonymorton.net1 at virginmedia.com>
wrote:

> .....
>
> I downloaded from the Epson website, scanner drivers for this model and
> for Ubuntu18.04. When I launch SANE it scans and finds my old HP scanner
> and also the new Epson scanner, so SANE knows that it exists. But when I
> try to scan I get the message about I/O error.
>
> The XP-4100 uses ports 1865/3289 UDP/TCP and I have opened those ports in
> the UFW firewall.
>
> I am very puzzled that if it can 'see' the machine why is there an Input /
> Output Error?
>
> It's difficult for us to support Epson's driver ourselves since it is not
from the SANE project.
One option might be if it supports eSCL. You might have some luck with the
sane-escl and/or the sane-airscan backends.
sane-escl is part of SANE and sane-airscan is a separate backend that
provides some overlap, from Alexander Pevsner.

Cheers,
Ralph
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