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<div>I wanted to post the solution for my problem with SANE and the Epson Perfection 4180 Color, should it prove useful for someone else in the future. As previously mentioned, the epkowa drivers and related plugin were loaded per the Avasys instructions. The logs were showing evidence that the firmware file was not being loaded (all calls to the device were failing). In an earlier attempt to remove ambiguity while debugging the SANE config files (before properly loading epkowa), I had added the vendor and product IDs to the usb line in the conf file (usb 0x04b8 0x0118), thereby triggering a bug in the backend. According to Olaf Meeuwissen, who was a great help in all of this, the problem only affects models that require iscan plugins and this bug has been fixed for the next release. Thanks again, Olaf!
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<div>-Brandon</div>
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