On 07/08/2011 08:12 PM, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Jeremy Dawson<jlcaadawson at netspeed.com.au> writes: > >> The equipment is EPSON-Stylus-CX5300 (according to the Printing tool), >> but I get >> [jeremy at home2006 ~]$ scanimage -L >> device `epson2:libusb:003:002' is a Epson CX5400 flatbed scanner > > For SANE backend purposes these are the same. > >> Here is exactly what I did with scanimage: >> >> [jeremy at home2006 ~]$ scanimage>image.pnm >> scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument >> >> [jeremy at home2006 ~]$ scanimage -d epson2:libusb:003:002>image.pnm >> scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument > > Not sure whether this is still an issue, but have you tried specifying a > resolution? The CX5300 should be able to do 100 but check the output of > scanimage -h for the `--resolution` option for details. > I tried this - no difference
[jeremy at home2006 ~]$ scanimage >a.pnm scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument [jeremy at home2006 ~]$ scanimage --resolution 100 >b.pnm scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument > There was a time where the default resolution of 300 wasn't checked > against what the device could actually do. > >> I can't think of any further relevant details but happy to provide >> them if I know exactly what further details are required > > The out.log file that results from > > SANE_DEBUG_EPSON2=255 scanimage> out.pnm 2> out.log [jeremy at home2006 ~]$ SANE_DEBUG_EPSON2=255 scanimage > out.pnm 2> out.log [jeremy at home2006 ~]$ ls -l out.log -rw-r--r--. 1 jeremy jeremy 39927 Jul 8 22:16 out.log Output file is attached > > FWIW, Image Scan! for Linux[1] supports this model just fine. Click the > All-in-Ones icon and use your browser's find functionality (Ctrl+F ?) to > locate the CX5300. > > [1] http://avasys.jp/eng/linux_driver/download/ I'm going away for 2 weeks soon (if I'd known I'd get replies so quickly I would have deferred this until I return - thanks for such speedy replies). I'll try this when I return. thanks again, Jeremy > > Hope this helps, -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: out.log URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20110708/02322bb4/attachment-0001.ksh>
