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

[Ralph Little]

For anyone interested:

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From: Ralph Little <skelband at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: [sane-devel] Epson All In One XP4100 - scanner problem
To: Tony Morton <tonymorton.net1 at virginmedia.com>


Hi


On Mon, Jul 5, 2021, 10:11 Tony Morton, <tonymorton.net1 at virginmedia.com>
wrote:

> Hi Ralph,
>
> I followed up your advice about sane-airscan and installed that, and it
> works, scanner performing normally now.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Tony
> On 05/07/2021 17:31, Ralph Little wrote:
>
> 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
>
> Excellent!

Cheers
Ralph

>
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