As Andy Bennett is suggesting, perhaps try to eliminate the possibility
that it's the cable, maybe try a different usb cable. I guess the ESP5
can only connect with usb (not network) so you can't try alternative
connecting methods?
After that I think I would be trying to look at debug logs to see which
bit of sane is giving the "communications failure" message. Then we
might be able to see in the source code what might cause that message.
I think you can do a scan in terminal something like this
root@acer:~# scanimage -L 2>sanedebug.txt
in order to catch the debug log in the file sanedebug.txt. It's possible
to vary the amount of detail in the file.
Paul
On 07/12/2020 21:23, Don Sutter wrote:
Thank you Paul - It's nice to see you're still around*! I hope I'm not
the only one left in existence with a Kodak ESP Printer ...
After power cycling the printer, Simple Scan repeats the same sequence
- it initializes and starts a scan and then terminates with a
"communications failure" message. The failure freezes my mouse for
about 10 seconds after the failure message if that's any help
Thanks again
Don
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I cannot really support this project anymore. I no longer have any
Kodak printers running, so it's difficult to do any tests to try and
reproduce anyone's problems. These drivers have been part of cups, for
printing, and sane, for scanning, for many years now. It might be
possible to get some support from the cups or sane projects,
particularly if the problem is likely to be something to do with the
filter chain rather than the driver.
On 12/5/20 10:15 AM, Paul Newall via sane-devel wrote:
Don,
I will try to help. I am the writer of the backend, however two
things that might make it difficult for me to help are:
1. It is a long time since I last used a Kodak aio. 2. I have never
personally used an ESP 5.
Questions:
After you power cycle, are you able to scan with simple scan? Or does
it always fail?
How are you connecting? USB? - I don't know what the options are for
the ESP 5.
regards,
Paul
On 30/11/2020 19:43, Don Sutter wrote:
Greetings -
I’m getting a “communucations error” using simple-scan with my Kodak
ESP 5 AiO scanner.
I can hear the scanner start but soon after get the error message. I
have to power cycle the printer to get it working again.
The Kodak machine works perfectly when connected to either a Windows
7 or Windows 10 machine, whether they’re real machines or VM
(VirtualBox).
I’m hoping there is someone here that can help me figure out what’s
going on.
Thanks in advance
Don
