For anyone interested: ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Ralph Little <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 10:39 AM Subject: Re: [sane-devel] Epson All In One XP4100 - scanner problem To: Tony Morton <[email protected]>
Hi On Mon, Jul 5, 2021, 10:11 Tony Morton, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ralph, > > I followed up your advice about sane-airscan and installed that, and it > works, scanner performing normally now. > > Many thanks > > Tony > On 05/07/2021 17:31, Ralph Little wrote: > > Hi, > > On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 8:23 AM Tony Morton < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> ..... >> >> I downloaded from the Epson website, scanner drivers for this model and >> for Ubuntu18.04. When I launch SANE it scans and finds my old HP scanner >> and also the new Epson scanner, so SANE knows that it exists. But when I >> try to scan I get the message about I/O error. >> >> The XP-4100 uses ports 1865/3289 UDP/TCP and I have opened those ports in >> the UFW firewall. >> >> I am very puzzled that if it can 'see' the machine why is there an Input >> / Output Error? >> >> It's difficult for us to support Epson's driver ourselves since it is not > from the SANE project. > One option might be if it supports eSCL. You might have some luck with the > sane-escl and/or the sane-airscan backends. > sane-escl is part of SANE and sane-airscan is a separate backend that > provides some overlap, from Alexander Pevsner. > > Cheers, > Ralph > > Excellent! Cheers Ralph >
