EPSON prefection 4490 photo scanner

[Denis Gaulin]

Le 18 mars, 2007

Thank you very much Ron for the solution I will try to do everything step you 
mention.

If I encounter problems I will come back....

Have a good day

Denis Gaulin



Le Mars 18, 2007 01:06 AM, Ron Morse a écrit :
> On Saturday 17 March 2007 20:12:44 Denis Gaulin wrote:
> > 	My problem is .. I have an EPSON scanner,  4490 perfection 4490 PHOTO
> > that I use with my Mac IBOOK G4 and I want to switch to these new OS and
> > I do not know how to install it on these computers because Kubuntu or
> > UBUNTU do not recognize the scanner.
> > 	The Kubuntu Documentation is  silent about scanner package.... nothing
> > in the official Documentation.
>
> This is you lucky day.  I just bought one of those units and worked out how
> to get it working on Kubuntu Edgy (also works for Feisty).
>
> The usual source for Linux scanner help and support is the SANE project at
>
> http://www.sane-project.org/
>
> Unfortunately, the Perfection 4490 Photo is not directly supported by SANE.
> The good news is that Epkowa, the parent company for Epson in Japan, does
> provide a Linux driver and a limited control software application for this
> unit.
>
> step 1.  From the Ubuntu repositories for your version, Install sane and
> related packages (libsane, libsane-extras, sane, sane-utils, xsane,
> xsane-common, quiteinsane) All of these may not be strictly required, but I
> do not know which ones are and which are not. That is just a list of what I
> have installed.
>
> step 2. Connect and power up the scanner. Wait 60 seconds for the scanner
> to warm up -- this seems to be important as it won't report it's presence
> until it is ready.
>
> step3. make sure the scanner is detected. In a terminal window run:
>
> sane-find-scanner
>
> it should report :
>
>     found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x0119 [EPSON
> Scanner]) at libusb:001:006
>
> or, run (also from a terminal window)
>
> scanimage -L
>
> and it should report finding an Epson Perfection 4490 flatbed scanner
>
> The libsub address will probably be different depending on which port you
> have connected the scanner.  If sane-find-scanner or scanimage -L do not
> find a scanner at all, stop. You have to solve that problem first.
>
> step 4. Get the 4490 linux package from the Epkowa site:
>
> http://www.avasys.jp/english/linux_e/dl_scan.html
>
> Answer their questionnaire. Select Perfection 4490 Photo. I told them I was
> using Debian and selected "other" in the version dialog. Clicking on
> the "next" button will take you to a download page
>
> step 5. The source code tarball will not build on Edgy or Feisty, so take
> the two .rpm files (you need both the iScan and the driver package) from
> the appropriate GCC version section for your distro. For Edgy or Feisty the
> GCC 3.4 files work.
>
> step 6. If you haven't already done so, install alien from repository to
> convert the .rpm files to .deb. (sudo apt-get install alien).
>
> step 7. Convert the .rpm files.  In a terminal window change to the
> directory where the two downloaded driver files are located then:
>
> sudo alien iscan_2.5.0-0.c2.i386.rpm
> sudo alien iscan-plugin-gt-x750_1.0.0-1.c2.i386.rpm
>
> This should produce the two .deb packages:
>
> iscan_2.5.0-0.c2.i386.deb
> iscan-plugin-gt-x750_1.0.0-1.c2.i386.deb
>
> Ignore any errors that you may see here.
>
> step 8. Install the two .deb packages from a terminal window with dpkg,
> doing the main iscan package first.
>
> sudo dpkg i- scan_2.5.0-0.c2.i386.deb
> sudo dpkg -i iscan-plugin-gt-x750_1.0.0-1c2.i386.deb
>
> Step 8a.
>
> If the main iscan package will not install cleanly because it reports file
> conflicts with certain sane-related packages previously  installed, just go
> ahead and force dpkg to overwrite
>
> sudo dpkg i- --force-overwrite iscan_2.5.0-0.c2.i386.deb
>
> The plugin should not have a conflict.
>
> This completes the installation.  To test things out make sure the scanner
> is powered up and connected and then type
>
> iscan
>
> from a terminal, It should start and identify the scanner.  Note the 4490
> takes awhile to warm up, so don't do thing too quickly and don't be
> surprised if things just sit there for a few moments before anything starts
> to happen.
>
> Once iscan is installed, the xsane and quiteinsane front-ends also should
> find and control the scanner. I prefer iScan to quiteinsane, but you can
> try them all and decide what best meets your needs.
>
> Ron Morse