Hi Marco,
On 11/4/20 9:07 PM, Marco Fioretti wrote:
I just received an Epson XP-4100 multifunction printer, and connected it
to an Ubuntu 20.04 desktop, with all updates installed, as well as the
packages sane and sane-utils
First thing to do, you need to replace ippusbxd package with ipp-usb. It
works MUCH more reliable. Om a next version of Ubuntu it would happen
automatically, but for now you should do it by yourself.
Prebuild ipp-usb packages can be loaded from here:
https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/pzz/
And project page is located here:
https://github.com/OpenPrinting/ipp-usb
After that, there is a good chance that the sane-escl driver will work
with your scanner. If it won't, you may consider installing sane-airscan
driver from here:
https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/pzz/ (binary packages)
https://github.com/alexpevzner/sane-airscan (project page)
It will also come automatically with the never version of Ubuntu, but
not with 20.04
Printing works fine, scanning does not. lsusb, scanimage and avahi
browse do list the scanner (see outputs below), and its web interface of
the scanner is reachable at http://127.0.0.1:60000/
<http://127.0.0.1:60000/PRESENTATION/HTML/TOP/PRTINFO.HTML>
However:
* the Epson imagescan package does not find any device.
* the web interface at Product Status -> Network says
Device Name : EPSON309A2B
Connection Status : Disable
and I can't find any way to enable it from there
* if I run scanimage I get "scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument"
(see details below)
* skanlite sees the scanner, but cannot actually scan: it just makes it
click for a few minutes, during which the scanner display says "Scanning
the original", then aborts, just like scanimage (see its output below)
I have configured and used lots of scanners under Linux for years
including shell scripts to scan lots of documents, but honestly I have
no idea what to do how or check next to make scanning work this time...
Any advice is very welcome
Thanks in advance,
Marco
COMMAND OUTPUTS:
#> lsusb
...
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 04b8:1137 Seiko Epson Corp. XP-4100 Series
#> scanimage -L
device `escl:http://127.0.0.1:60000' is a ESCL XP-4100 Series
[583642553130313920] flatbed scanner
#> avahi-browse -rt _uscan._tcp
+ lo IPv4 XP-4100 Series [583642553130313920]
_uscan._tcp local
= lo IPv4 XP-4100 Series [583642553130313920]
_uscan._tcp local
hostname = [polaris.local]
address = [127.0.0.1]
port = [60000]
txt = ["txtvers=1" "vers=2.63" "rs=eSCL" "ty=EPSON XP-4100 Series"
"pdl=application/pdf,image/jpeg" "cs=binary,grayscale,color" "duplex=F"
"adminurl=http://127.0.0.1:60000/PRESENTATION/BONJOUR";
"UUID=cfe92100-67c4-11d4-a45f-381a52309a2b" "note="
"representation=http://127.0.0.1:60000/icon.png";]
#> scanimage -d "escl:http://127.0.0.1:60000"; -p --format=tiff
--mode=Color --resolution=1200dpi > gigio.tiff
Capability : [(null)]
Capability : [image/jpeg]
scanimage: rounded value of resolution from 1200 to 1200
scanimage: rounded value of br-x from 0 to 0
scanimage: rounded value of br-y from 0 to 0
scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument
#> skanlite
"deviceOption value="
("image/bmp", "image/jpeg", "image/png", "image/tiff",
"image/vnd.microsoft.icon", "image/vnd.wap.wbmp", "image/webp",
"image/x-eps", "image/x-icns", "image/x-pcx", "image/x-pic",
"image/x-portable-bitmap", "image/x-portable-graymap",
"image/x-portable-pixmap", "image/x-rgb", "image/x-tga",
"image/x-xbitmap", "image/x-xpixmap")
"escl:http://127.0.0.1:60000";
"escl:http://127.0.0.1:60000";
Capability : [(null)]
Capability : [image/jpeg]
"escl:http://127.0.0.1:60000";
"escl:http://127.0.0.1:60000";
sane_start= Invalid argument
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Wishes, Alexander Pevzner ([email protected])
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