Re: xsane can't see Brother ADS-2700W scanner
On Tue, 30 Mar 2021 19:24:36 -0700
Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> wrote:
> I just got a Brother ADS-2700W sheet-fed scanner and am trying
> to access it from xsane. I've done a lot of flatbed scanning,
> first with an HP 3970, and lately with an Epson WF-2650 all-in-one,
> but I have a lot of old manuals I want to scan and upload to
> Bitsavers, and a sheet feeder will speed the process along.
>
> The Brother got a lot of good reviews so I decided to give it a try.
> It offers many options, such as e-mail, [S]FTP, etc. over Ethernet,
> wi-fi, and USB. But so far, I haven't been able to get xsane to
> recognize it. My wife tried to get at it from her Macbook (which
> accesses the Epson with no trouble), but had no luck either.
> It's not a connectivity issue - the scanner happily connects
> to my wi-fi and gets an IP address, and I can access it from
> a web browser and get at all of its configuration screens.
> But neither xsane nor my wife's Macbook can see it.
>
> The one way I did manage to get the scanner to work was to a
> USB flash drive. It quickly sucked in a handful of sheets,
> scanned both sides, and wrote them to a file on the stick.
> If all else fails, I can work with it that way. But I'd
> really like to let xsane manage the process.
>
> I'm beginning to wonder, though, whether fashions are changing.
> Scanners nowadays seem to want to push data to a server, rather
> than being commanded to scan by a computer. Is this really
> happening? If so, whither (or should that be "wither") xsane?
>
> If anyone has gotten one of these newfangled machines to work
> as a slave, rather than a master, please share your secrets.
I recently had some trouble getting xsane to find my networked Brother HL-2280DW. I eventually got it to work by adding "brother4" to /etc/sane.d/dll.conf, following the directions from the ArchWiki:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SANE/Scanner-specific_problems#Network_Scanning
Celejar
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