[sane-devel] Epson ET-2711 ("ecotank")

[Thierry Huchard]

Le 2021-05-06 17:07, Paulo Silva a écrit :
> hi!
> 
> it seems that the scanner from Epson ET-2711 (
> https://www.epson.co.uk/products/printers/inkjet-printers/for-home/ecotank-et-2711
> ) is still not supported out of the box
> 
> i can't enter at sane's irc (totally forgot what is nickserv register
> about and stuff like that...), so i'm answering here what
> http://www.sane-project.org/mailing-lists.html asks:
> 
> "scanimage --version" says:
> scanimage (sane-backends) 1.0.31-debian; backend version 1.0.31
> 
> "lsb_release -a" says:
> LSB
> Version:	core-11.1.0ubuntu2-noarch:printing-11.1.0ubuntu2-noarch:security-11.1.0ubuntu2-noarch
> Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
> Description:	Ubuntu 20.10
> Release:	20.10
> Codename:	groovy
> 
> "lsusb | grep Epson" says:
> Bus 003 Device 004: ID 04b8:1143 Seiko Epson Corp.
> 
> so, i'm curious to know how soon is this scanner going to be
> supported, and on what can we help for that...
> 

Hi Paulo,

If you want to use it in resins you have several options:
1 - Update sane
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sane-project/sane-git
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install libsane libsane1 libsane-common sane-utils

2 - Install sane-airscan
3 - Install espon drivers 
http://support.epson.net/linux/en/epsonscan2.php

For USB :
1 - Install espon drivers 
http://support.epson.net/linux/en/epsonscan2.php
2 - Install ipp-usb and use sane-airscan or sane-escl

Thierry

> thanks in advance,
> Paulo