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Bapi Saha
Asked: 2019-04-18 07:28:17 +0800 CST

Epson Scan is not working in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS?

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I am using ubuntu 18.04 LTS . I have a EPSON L220 All-in-One printer ( printer + scanner). I successfully configure the printer setting and printing is done very well. But scanner is not working. I have downloaded the epson scanner driver from http://support.epson.net/linux/en/imagescanv3.php, extract the zip file, open a terminal, go to the folder and and run the command ./install.sh from terminal, it simply run the command without any error. But when I open software Image Scan!for linux , then it shows the following error message enter image description here

drivers printing epson scanner 18.04

4 Answers

  1. Apparently, this was broken at some point, and fixed in 19.04, but never backported to 18.04 LTS (which it should have been!)

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/1728012

    There should be some way to notify the 18.04 LTS team that this fix should be backported, but I don't know what it is.

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  2. Jut to compile in a single answer something that worked for me in Ubuntu 18.04 for an Epson ET-2712:

    1. Download and install: http://support.epson.net/linux/en/imagescanv3.php
    2. gedit /etc/imagescan/imagescan.conf [as sudo]: see Content of imagescan.conf below
    3. Enjoy!

    Content of imagescan.conf:

    [devices]

net.udi=networkscan:esci:networkscan://192.168.[COMPLETE WITH YOUR PRINTER IP]:1865
net.vendor = Epson
net.model  = ET-2712
net.name  = WHATEVERNAMEYOULIKE
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  3. I had the same problem, lsusb found the scanner, the scanner is detected by sane-find-scanner -L.

    Adding the following line to /etc/rc.local : chmod -R a+w /dev/bus/usb

    fixed the problem, clearly an access issue. After this it all works. However, this is not a safe solution for a system accessible from the net.

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    1. Go to epson.net and search L220 (below select linux)

    2. click on appropriate download button for scanner

    3. then Accept, then Package download page; then Download according to distrib.

    4. After downloading tar.gz, untar, in terminal with:

       tar xzvf file.tar.gz

    5. Then enter folder cd filenamefolder in terminal, and then ./install.sh

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