Re: printer advice
NeilBrown via linux-aus <[email protected]>
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On Wed, 31 May 2023, Russell Stuart wrote: > > The scanners on the MFP's are a different story. Mine scans (it's a > ET-5170). But getting scanners to work has always been a struggle for > me. The ET-5170 does scan from my laptop (and phone) using the Epson > supplied close source binary. It's GUI looked very pretty on start up > but isn't particularly ergonomic, and it segfaults on occasion. In my > experience that's par for the course for vendor supplied software. If > you can find a scanner supported by SANE you can use open source > software, which will be more reliable. I couldn't. The easiest way to scan on my MFPs is to connect to the embedded web server. It works, and doesn't require closed software (outside the computer). It certainly isn't ideal for high throughput, but the hardware itself can only take one page at a time, so if I wanted high throughput, I would buy different hardware. If I REALLY wanted to I could probably write a script with curl to automate some of it. NeilBrown _______________________________________________ linux-aus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to linux-aus-unsubscribe-cunTk1MwBs8iFSDQTTA3OBCuuivNXqWP@public.gmane.org