V330 working on Ubuntu 10.04
Posted: Mon 28 Mar 2011, 13:55
Thanks for the idea - I have a (rarely used) Ubuntu 10.04 install so have tried installing there. After several attempts this worked. I had to install SANE 1.0.14 (I stupidly assumed at first that SANE was a pre-req to XSANE, but it isn't), and the Epson driver installation requires that SANE is installed before the driver without explicitly making it a dependency. Then I got similar errors to my Lucid Puppy install - couldn't communicate with scanner, etc. I then realised that the third file on the Epson drivers page (esci-interpreter-perfection-v330_0.0.1-1_i386.deb) is a plug-in specifically for this printer. With the plug-in installed, ImageScan talks to the printer, but not without. Would you advise trying to install the plug-in on Lucid Puppy?
EDIT: Just seen your Update! We have been working on this in parallel, I think. Thanks for your help. Will try the plug-in on Puppy.
2nd EDIT: Tested the esci-interpreter-... PET on Lucid Puppy 5.2 and it works, thank you. The V330 now works on ISCAN and also on XSANE (though startup on both is very slow - as it is on Ubuntu). And ISCAN can be started as a plug-in from GIMP. Many thanks to rcrsn51.
One footnote however for anyone else who is considering this scanner. The Linux drivers (or possibly the Linux interface apps) are lower function than the W*nd*ws ones, much as I hate to say this. In particular the clever manipulation of transparencies and negatives that can be done in the Epson W*nd*ws app (e.g. scan a strip of 6 negatives, separate them into 6 images automatically, adjust the contrast and brightness of each individually during the scan) isn't available. The W*nd*ws drivers don't work under WINE, unsurprisingly, so some functions are just going to mean booting that emergency W*nd*ws system.
EDIT: Just seen your Update! We have been working on this in parallel, I think. Thanks for your help. Will try the plug-in on Puppy.
2nd EDIT: Tested the esci-interpreter-... PET on Lucid Puppy 5.2 and it works, thank you. The V330 now works on ISCAN and also on XSANE (though startup on both is very slow - as it is on Ubuntu). And ISCAN can be started as a plug-in from GIMP. Many thanks to rcrsn51.
One footnote however for anyone else who is considering this scanner. The Linux drivers (or possibly the Linux interface apps) are lower function than the W*nd*ws ones, much as I hate to say this. In particular the clever manipulation of transparencies and negatives that can be done in the Epson W*nd*ws app (e.g. scan a strip of 6 negatives, separate them into 6 images automatically, adjust the contrast and brightness of each individually during the scan) isn't available. The W*nd*ws drivers don't work under WINE, unsurprisingly, so some functions are just going to mean booting that emergency W*nd*ws system.