Epson Workforce 845 scanner functions?

Question

Just successfully installed an Epson Workforce 845 printer-FAX-scanner. Printer works OK, but there don't seem to be any drivers etc. for the scanner function(s). Any clues?

Answer 1

I think you are looking for these drivers:

Epson Workforce 845 scroll about 1/3 of the way down on the page

Scanner Drivers here

According to the SANE web site

>>>>> found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8, product=0x0892) at libusb:001:007 is your Epson scanner.

Time to edit: gksudo gedit /etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf Example Snippet follows:

# epkowa.conf -- sample configuration for the EPKOWA SANE backend
# Copyright (C) 2004, 2008, 2009  Olaf Meeuwissen
#
# See sane-epkowa(5), sane-usb(5) and sane-scsi(5) for details.

# Detect all devices supported by the backend.
# If you don't have a SCSI device, you can comment out the "scsi"
# keyword.  Similarly for the other keywords.
#
usb
scsi


# For any USB scanner not known to the backend (yet), you may, at your
# own peril(!!), force the backend to recognise and use it via libusb.
# You can do so by the following configuration command:
# 
#   usb <USB vendor ID> <USB product ID>
#
# SEIKO EPSON's USB vendor ID is '0x04b8' (without quotes).  In order
# to find the USB product ID, use lsusb(1).
# A sample configuration for the Epson Perfection 1650 (Epson GT-8200),
# which has a product ID of 0x0110, would look as follows:
#
#usb 0x04b8 0x0110

you will need to insert (vendor=0x04b8, product=0x0892) per the example and remove the "#" at the beginning code line. Save and reboot.