On 29/10/2020 16.47, DennisG wrote:
On 10/28/20 1:51 PM, Doug McGarrett wrote:
On 10/28/20 7:22 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 28/10/2020 04.45, Doug McGarrett wrote:
Replying to my last email: Yes, I have found a large discussion at Epson, and a download, and I will work from that until I get stuck again, or it'w working. --doug
The print driver for your machine you (eventually) installed from the openSUSE package epson-inkjet-printer-escpr. You had downloaded an (old) print driver from Epson and installed it but it didn't work. Once you installed the openSUSE package, the print problem was resolved,
For the scanner, I seem to recall that you indicated you had also downloaded and installed the separate scanner software at that time, but who knows. The Epson software consists of a bash script to run which installs several included rpm's, so installation is very simple. Along with the scanner driver there is a network component plus an end-user scan management application called Image Scan! (looks like a full-blown device mgmt app, analogous to HPLIP). I later explained that there is proprietary code in this package under the Seiko license, which disqualifies it from being included in openSUSE. There is documentation included.
Alternatively, you may have just installed the sane-backends package. IIRC you were once looking for epkowa, a generic driver that might work. That driver and many others are in this package. These drivers can all be hooked into by a front-end like xsane.
Finally, there is a third alternative. In the Packman contributed repo there are 3 packages for a large number of Epson scanners: The iscan package provides a graphical front-end alternative to Image Scan!. The iscan-firmware and iscan-plugin packages provide the proprietary code such as included in the downloaded Epson package described above. You can read the package descriptions in Yast/Software Management.
I surmise that the driver in sane-backends may provide basic functionality. There is additional functionality in the iscan package which adds proprietary code and a lightweight alternative to Image Scan! And the Epson download package provides all the bells-and-whistles with Image Scan!.
I have no idea what you have actually done or need to do now.
As he says it is working, nothing. Except write down the all steps till success. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)