[Linux-aus] printer advice

[NeilBrown]

On Wed, 31 May 2023, Russell Stuart wrote:
> 
> The scanners on the MFP's are a different story.  Mine scans (it's a
> ET-5170).  But getting scanners to work has always been a struggle for
> me.  The ET-5170 does scan from my laptop (and phone) using the Epson
> supplied close source binary.  It's GUI looked very pretty on start up
> but isn't particularly ergonomic, and it segfaults on occasion.  In my
> experience that's par for the course for vendor supplied software.  If
> you can find a scanner supported by SANE you can use open source
> software, which will be more reliable.  I couldn't.

The easiest way to scan on my MFPs is to connect to the embedded web
server.  It works, and doesn't require closed software (outside the
computer).  It certainly isn't ideal for high throughput, but the
hardware itself can only take one page at a time, so if I wanted high
throughput, I would buy different hardware.

If I REALLY wanted to I could probably write a script with curl to
automate some of it.

NeilBrown