Installing Epson GT-F720, GT-S620, Perfection V30, or Perfection V300 Photo scanner

NOTE: Tried only with Espon Perfection V30; according to Epson the other scanners use the same Epkowa interpreter.

Required packages

These four scanners require the following packages:

• iscan-${version}~usb0.1.ltdl7_{$architecture}.deb

  • From ubuntu 8.10 and up ltdl7 is used, older 8.04 and before version of ubuntu use ltdl3.;

• iscan-data_${version}_all.deb; and
• esci-interpreter-gt-f720_${version}_${architecture}.deb

  • The esci-interpreter version is different from the iscan-, and iscan-data-version.

Epson provides these packages via their download page http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/searchModule. Search for your scanner model. Iscan and iscan-data are in the "core package&data package"-module. esci-interpreter is in the "iscan plugin"-module.

Install

Install the packages using your favourite package management tool. The following shows using the commandline tools dpkg, apt-get, and apt-mark:

• Install the downloaded packages:

  •    sudo dpkg -i --refuse-downgrade \
            ${HOME}/Downloads/iscan-data_${version}~usb0.1.ltdl7_{$architecture}.deb \
            ${HOME}/Downloads/iscan-${version}~usb0.1.ltdl7_{$architecture}.deb \
            ${HOME}/Downloads/esci-interpreter-gt-f720_${version}_${architecture}.deb`

• Fix missing dependencies:

  •    sudo apt-get install --fix-broken

• Mark iscan-data as automatically installed, so that it will be removed when you
  • unintall iscan.

    If you intent to use another (SANE) frontend, you can mark iscan as automatically installed as well. The esci-interpreter depends on iscan which depends on iscan-data.

       sudo apt-mark auto iscan-data

Configure Sane to use Esci-interpreter

To iscan and esci-interpreter packages confige sane automatically: It Just Works™.

If you had powered on your scanner before installing the drivers, turn it off and on again to avoid the access denied errors (see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1795827 ).

See also

* http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1795827 - info and solution for "access refused to the peripheral" error * https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SANE%20-%20Installing%20a%20scanner%20that%20isn%27t%20auto-detected - tutorial on mannually configuring drivers for sane.