[sane-devel] Ricoh SP-213 SUw Scanner

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Thu, 1 May 2025, Sylvain K wrote:

> I tried the installation of sane for my Ricoh SP-213 SUw that is a multifunction printer with scanner included.
> I'm running an Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS and my printer is connected through usb.
> 
> sane-find-scanner tells me :
> found possible USB scanner (vendor=0x05ca [RICOH ], product=0x044f [RICOH SP 213SUw]) at libusb:002:012
> found possible USB scanner (vendor=0x138a, product=0x0017) at libusb:002:003
> 
> scanimage is telling : No scanners were identified.

I've had mixed results from scanimage, but more luck with simple-scan
which is what I prefer now.  It might be worth trying other tools and
if you're not averse to pain you can try looking for some debug info.
It might mean using command line switches or tweaking configurations.

> Can you tell me if my model is supported by sane ?

Using Google I searched for

"sane supported scanners"

The first hit was

http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-devices.html

Your scanner doesn't seem to be mentioned.  It's possible that drivers
for 'similar' scanners will work, although perhaps only partially.  If
you can connect via the scanner's wireless LAN interface, you may find
it works that way - but that's just a guess.

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73,
Ged.