[sane-devel] Epson Perfetion 2480 scanner

Olaf Meeuwissen olaf@epkowa.co.jp
Mon, 23 Aug 2004 16:05:54 +0900


Karl Heinz Kremer <khk@khk.net> writes:

> I don't know anything about this scanner, which means that I also
> don't know if the scanner is supported by the EPSON backend, or uses a
> different design that may fall into the same category as the 3170,
> 1670, 1260, 1270 or 660.
>
> You can find out if it's supported by the EPSON backend by adding a
> line like this to your epson.conf file
>
> usb 0x4b8 <product id>
>
> You need to substitute <product id> with the actual USB product ID for
> your scanner.
>
> Then try to use one of the Sane frontends (e.g. scanimage, xscanimage,
> xsane, ...) and see if you get any results. If the scanner does not
> return an image, you should try to get capture a log file:
>
> export SANE_DEBUG_EPSON=128
> scanimage > /tmp/scan.log
>
> Please send the log file to me.

Mind sending it to the list?  Then I get to see it as well.
# I maintain the epkowa backend.

> Karl Heinz
>
>
> On Aug 17, 2004, at 1:23 PM, Jan Thiele wrote:
>
>> Hi folks!
>>
>> I've got an Epson Perfection 2480, which is currently not supported
>> by SANE.
>> How can I help to get it to work? Could anyone tell me, what steps I
>> should
>> perform?
>>
>> Thanks a lot in advance,
>> Jan
>>
>>
>>
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