So I've bought a new 3 in 1 device - Epson L3151 printer and scanner. These are the install packages I installed to get the printer and scanner running in Mint. (so far in Sabayon, I've only made the printer work, for some reason it simply doens't recognise the device even if it sees it in lsusb)
I probably have installed more packages than needed but especially with the scanner, the minimal install simply wasn't working. After I installed everything I saw related to scanning, it worked :) Btw, the printer is great, the scanner as well. I'm very happy with it - very easy to add the ink, very easy to manipulate. If only I could network install it without Windows, but that seems too hard and I don't have time for it now.
To install the printer (Epson drivers, the PPD for manual install):
>sudo apt-get install printer-driver-escpr epson-inkjet-printer-escpr epson-printer-utility escputil mtink
To install the scanner, I basically installed all the scanning packages I found (the "official" Epson webpage) :
>sudo apt-get install imagescan-bundle-ubuntu imagescan iscan-plugin iscan-data sane sane-utils libltdl7 exim4-daemon-heavy simple-scan xsane imagescan-plugin-gt-s650 imagescan-plugin-networkscan imagescan-plugin-ocr-engine mawk
You should be able to see your scanner with these two commands:
>sane-find-scanner
>scanimage-L
or for debugging:
>dpkg -l iscan* | grep ii
And to use the scanner, the only thing that worked is xsane
>xsane
Note, xsane is not easy to work with at first.
If you want to scan multiple documents, you FIRST choose in the main menu (the one with File, Preferences etc)-> Multiplepage (you can also set Color/Greyscale)
Then in Standard options, you choose A4
Then you click Scan in the Main window
A new scan appear in the Multipage menu. You can preview it with Show image
Then you scan the same way the other pages. Then you click on Save project (you should have chosen as filetype PDF). And then you have your PDF in the project folder.
Sources: Link1, Link2, Link3, Link4,
I probably have installed more packages than needed but especially with the scanner, the minimal install simply wasn't working. After I installed everything I saw related to scanning, it worked :) Btw, the printer is great, the scanner as well. I'm very happy with it - very easy to add the ink, very easy to manipulate. If only I could network install it without Windows, but that seems too hard and I don't have time for it now.
To install the printer (Epson drivers, the PPD for manual install):
>sudo apt-get install printer-driver-escpr epson-inkjet-printer-escpr epson-printer-utility escputil mtink
To install the scanner, I basically installed all the scanning packages I found (the "official" Epson webpage) :
>sudo apt-get install imagescan-bundle-ubuntu imagescan iscan-plugin iscan-data sane sane-utils libltdl7 exim4-daemon-heavy simple-scan xsane imagescan-plugin-gt-s650 imagescan-plugin-networkscan imagescan-plugin-ocr-engine mawk
You should be able to see your scanner with these two commands:
>sane-find-scanner
>scanimage-L
or for debugging:
>dpkg -l iscan* | grep ii
And to use the scanner, the only thing that worked is xsane
>xsane
Note, xsane is not easy to work with at first.
If you want to scan multiple documents, you FIRST choose in the main menu (the one with File, Preferences etc)-> Multiplepage (you can also set Color/Greyscale)
Then in Standard options, you choose A4
Then you click Scan in the Main window
A new scan appear in the Multipage menu. You can preview it with Show image
Then you scan the same way the other pages. Then you click on Save project (you should have chosen as filetype PDF). And then you have your PDF in the project folder.
Sources: Link1, Link2, Link3, Link4,
For Manjaro not finding the printer/scanner I did
$sudo pacman -S sane
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/sane_Troubleshooting
pamac search epson-inkjet-printer-escpr
pamac build epson-inkjet-printer-escpr
pamac build epsonscan
pamac build epsonscan2
pamac search -a escpr
pamac build search -a escpr
pamac install epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2
https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/Printing
http://localhost:631/
