Has anyone had any sucess installing the scanning portion of the EPSON Stylus CX4600?
If so, what settings were used?
Is there a driver update for it or is it still using a workaround driver?
I've tried Sane and XSane both will not find the usb scanner.

I'm using SuSE 9.2 with a Dell Inspiron 2500 Dual Boot WinXP / SuSE
Thanks in advance.

I installed it today and it really works. As super-user do

sane-find-scanner

on the command prompt. It will give you <product id> and <device id>. the output should contain:

found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x080d [USB MFP]) at libusb:001:003

Goto directory /etc/sane.d and open dll.conf to make sure that "epson"(without quotes) is uncommented and all others are commented. Save it.

In the same directory open epson.conf and add the following line:

usb 0x04b8 0x080d

and save the file.

Now this should work and you can check that at command prompt by typing

scanimage -L

It will list the scanner.

Now use a utility like kooka or Xsane and have phun ...:-)

hi

I have tried to get cx3650 to work with kooka but there is still something wrong. I have done same kind of things that user ibharti and now I can use kooka in root mode but not in normal user mode! kooka doen't find my scanner in user mode but in root mode it is showing screen what scanner is used!?! what can I do? is this some kind of user rights case?

this is what I have done:

This is a multifunction device I got to work using Gimp-print's CX3100 driver.
I tried it with 100x100, 360x360, 720x360 (no apparent difference from 360x360)
and 720x720; other resolutions I didn't try, nor did I try photographic paper,
etc.

The scanner works too, and it is identified by SANE as a CX3600, but only after
doing this:

1) Get the manufacturer & product numbers:

# sane-find-scanner
[...]
found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x080e [USB MFP]) at
libusb:001:002
[...]

2) Modify /etc/sane.d/epson.conf to look for it by adding these numbers to the
"usb" line:

usb 0x4b8 0x80e

3) Add a line for this scanner to /etc/hotplug/usb/libsane.usermap:

# Epson Corp.|Stylus CX3600
libusbscanner 0x0003 0x04b8 0x080e 0x0000 0x0000 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
0x00000000

4) Turn multifunction off, restart the hotplug subsystem and turn multifunction
on

5) Add users who want to scan to the "scanner" group

6) Ready!

What is your exact problem? I am not really able to understand.

I can use kooka scanner program when I'm logged in by root but when logged in by normal user kooka can't find the scanner and all the functions are missing in kooka program! so what I have to do that all users have permission to use scanner in kooka? I hope this helps...

I think this is related to user access permissions. Just look for info on setting permissions for devices.

Hi gallan,

I'm thinking about this printer but I would like to get some feedbacks

Is it able to print good quality text like for CV/Résumé with sharp letters??
And how is the economy mode? Does it give a quite nice output or only a very poor draft quality?

Thxs in advance
Ludo

Yes it does. Select the printer as model 300 with 4 cartridges.

Thank you!

So I guess, that's the one I will buy