- I found the drivers for it here: http://avasys.jp/eng/linux_driver/
There are drivers for a number of Epson printers there also. - I downloaded these files:
- Epson-Stylus_NX510-pipslite-en.ppd
- pipslite_1.4.0-5_i386.deb
- iscan-network-nt_1.1.0-2_i386.deb
- iscan_2.23.0-3_i386.deb
- Installed pipslite first. It whined about libltdl3 being missing, so I did:
sudo ln -s libltdl.so.7 libltdl.so.3
then
sudo dpkg --ignore-depends=libltdl3 -i pipslite_1.4.0-5_i386.deb - Now the printer driver (the ppd file) can be installed using the printer manager, just choose the ppd file when it asks for one.
- It turns out the iscan-network package isn't necessary since I didn't set the printer up as a network printer.
- To install the iscan app, first ensure xsane > 1.0.3 is installed. I already had xsane 1.0.14, so I was good.
- Install iscan:
sudo dpkg --ignore-depends=libltdl3 -i iscan_2.23.0-3_i386.deb - Now try to start xsane. It will likely complain about permissions. Run:
lsusb
Find your scanner in the output, making note of the bus and device number. My scanner was bus 001, device 008, so now do this:
sudo chmod a+w /dev/bus/usb/001/008
Now xsane and iscan both start with no trouble. - If you tried to start xsane as root befor step 8, you'll get some errors when quitting xsane. That's because root owns the config files in ~/.sane. Just delete the ~/.sane directory and all will be well.
- Since I installed 2 packages with "ignore-depends", both dpkg and synaptic will complain about broken packages and want to uninstall them when trying to install some new package. To fix this:
- Make a backup of /var/lib/dpkg/status
- Edit /var/lib/dpkg/status, find the iscan package.
- Find the dependencies line, and remove the reference to libltdl.so.3.
- Repeat for pipslite.
- Save /var/lib/dpkg/status.
- Now dpkg and synaptic will not try to remove your newly installed scanner apps and printer driver.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Epson NX510 scanner and Ubuntu 9.04
My wife got a printer/scanner/copier/fax combo machine for Christmas. Today I finally got around to setting it up for her.
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Do you still have pipslite_1.4.0-5_i386.deb ? Could you mail it to me or post a download link for it? I suspect the newer pipslite_1.5 may have bugs (with it the command prompt printing does not work for me) and I would like to try the older pipslite_1.4. which is no longer available on the avasys site.
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