Hi
I finally "bit the bullet" and purchased a physical Epson Ecotank at a certain "office store" because it was literally only about 15 dollars more than replacing the cartridges for my HP Envy 4520.
a ) I had no problem installing drivers for the HP Envy for both the printer side and scanner side and both worked perfectly. But the cartridges are VERY expensive and one cannot use a third party cartridge.
b) I had always like the idea of the "ecotank" printers and thought I would "take a lark".
So, here is the situation.
a) the printer driver installed correctly and it does, indeed, print just fine.
b) there is a LOT of ink in the "tanks" and it has a physical "window" where one can physically see the level of ink.
c) it will not scan, simple as that.
I have fiddled with trying to get the scanner driver and cannot seem to find anything.
I can still run the HP ENVY as a "scanner" even with no ink, so I can "get things done" but now have used up another usb port on the MOBO and also have another piece of hardware on the desk.
BTW... the device itself has a VERY small foot print, BUT, the exact same "glass for scanning" size as the physically larger HP ENVY. the device is 15 inches / 35 cm by 12 inches 30 cm.
Soooooo
If anyone could help me with finding a SCANNER driver, I have looked in the usual places and found only the Epson supposed ones, but there are no less than four included files: core and plugins.
I used the following for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 64 bit which always works with other things.
I also went through the suggestion to "archived" versions and it did not work either.
http://support.epson.net/linux/en/imagescanv3.php
It offers to extract to .tmp and seems to so do ( .debs DO APPEAR.. and when clicked they seem to install, even offering to bring other packages ) but when I then try to use xsane it does not find a device.
What would be greatly appreciated would be just a simple .deb.
This bollux up is one reason why i have always stuck with HP even when they are messing people over with ink costs.
thanks ahead of time!
woodsmoke
I finally "bit the bullet" and purchased a physical Epson Ecotank at a certain "office store" because it was literally only about 15 dollars more than replacing the cartridges for my HP Envy 4520.
a ) I had no problem installing drivers for the HP Envy for both the printer side and scanner side and both worked perfectly. But the cartridges are VERY expensive and one cannot use a third party cartridge.
b) I had always like the idea of the "ecotank" printers and thought I would "take a lark".
So, here is the situation.
a) the printer driver installed correctly and it does, indeed, print just fine.
b) there is a LOT of ink in the "tanks" and it has a physical "window" where one can physically see the level of ink.
c) it will not scan, simple as that.
I have fiddled with trying to get the scanner driver and cannot seem to find anything.
I can still run the HP ENVY as a "scanner" even with no ink, so I can "get things done" but now have used up another usb port on the MOBO and also have another piece of hardware on the desk.
BTW... the device itself has a VERY small foot print, BUT, the exact same "glass for scanning" size as the physically larger HP ENVY. the device is 15 inches / 35 cm by 12 inches 30 cm.
Soooooo
If anyone could help me with finding a SCANNER driver, I have looked in the usual places and found only the Epson supposed ones, but there are no less than four included files: core and plugins.
I used the following for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 64 bit which always works with other things.
I also went through the suggestion to "archived" versions and it did not work either.
http://support.epson.net/linux/en/imagescanv3.php
It offers to extract to .tmp and seems to so do ( .debs DO APPEAR.. and when clicked they seem to install, even offering to bring other packages ) but when I then try to use xsane it does not find a device.
What would be greatly appreciated would be just a simple .deb.
This bollux up is one reason why i have always stuck with HP even when they are messing people over with ink costs.
thanks ahead of time!
woodsmoke
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