How to configure Epson Stylus NX420 scanner on Debian?

jessetaylor84 · 10-12-2014, 10:42 PM

I'm trying to get my Epson Stylus NX420 printer/scanner combo to work with sane on Debian Wheezy (via USB). I've got cups and saned running, and I've added the printer in the cups configuration page. The printer itself works fine, but I cannot get xsane or simple-scan to recognize the scanner.

My user is in the scanner, lpadmin, and plugdev groups ... I currently have it set to use the Epson ESC/P-R driver, but I also tried it with the CUPS+Gutenprint driver (neither work) ... I have tried using epson and epson2 in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf with no luck

sane-find-scanner gives me:

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found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8, product=0x0864) at libusb:002:004

However, when I run scanimage -L (as root), I get the following:

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No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate) ...

Any ideas how to get this scanner to work on Debian?

aus9 · 10-13-2014, 07:32 PM

Hi

use root powers to edit /etc/sane.d/hp3900.conf/epson.conf to show without #

usb 0x04b8 0x0864
usb /dev/usbscanner0
usb /dev/usb/scanner0

full reboot

do not run scanner as root pls.

2) cups is independent of saned
confirm that
/etc/init.d/saned status (is running)

now check scanimage as local user

good luck

jessetaylor84 · 10-14-2014, 02:01 AM

Thanks for your suggestions. I added what you suggested into /etc/sane.d/epson.conf but unfortunately, the scanner is still not recognized by xsane or simple-scan.

The output from sane-find-scanner is the same as before. Now, however, the output of scanimage -L (as root) gives me:

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device `epson:libusb:003:003' is a Epson PID flatbed scanner

Running scanimage -L as a regular user gives me the "No scanners were identified [...]" message.

Any suggestions on where to go from here?

EDDY1 · 10-14-2014, 05:54 AM

Check /etc/groups to see if scanner is listed & user part of that group.

jessetaylor84 · 10-14-2014, 09:40 AM

Yes, as I said in the initial post, the user is in the scanner, lpadmin, and plugdev groups.