The Epson WF-4630 is a great multifunction printer/scanner with excellent linux support. The installation of the wireless printer was very easy but having the scanner running under linux was not as easy. I was not able to find any instruction until I found a thread in this forum where deano_ferrari provided key tip to the setup. Here is a summary of all the steps I took, the ideas and words belong to deano. Big thanks deano for your invaluable help and knowledge.
Get the linux drivers from Epson site
http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/?OSC=LX
This is a wireless scanner. Do not use Yast to install it.
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- install
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iscan-bundle-1.0.0.x64.rpm
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I use yast to intall it from an RPM directory. I did not follow the instructions of the readme file that comes with it.
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So these are the 3 files installed
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iscan
iscan-data
iscan-network-nt without this one the nework scan will not be seen
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2. Sane uses /etc/sane.d/dll.conf to decide which drivers to use for given hardware. The ‘epkowa’ (which serves your scanner) should be present and uncommented, so that it loads on demand.
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3. sane-find-scanner
This command either root/user only works with USB connected scanners, it will not detect network connected scanners. So you do not need to use it.
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4. Some extra steps are required for a network attached Epson scanner
/etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf
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net 192.168.0.5
net 192.168.0.1
#net scanner.mydomain.com
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Here are the changes for my scanner, the 2 lines are uncommented.
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5. Iscan now runs OK and can see a preview of the image but …
" there is not enough disk space for this operations"
The default file with scanned image is a “PNG” format file. Changing the file format to another format like TIFF solves the problem