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  • SOLVED: Xerox C315 MFP + Ubuntu

    From Java Jive@21:1/5 to J.O. Aho on Tue Mar 12 11:42:55 2024
    XPost: alt.os.linux

    On 11/03/2024 15:41, J.O. Aho wrote:

    On 11/03/2024 15.54, Java Jive wrote:

    On 11/03/2024 11:29, Theo wrote:

    The C315 doesn't appear to
    have Linux scanner drivers - there's a .deb to download but it only
    seems to
    have printer drivers in it.

    Which would explain why I can print but not scan.

    There seems to have been some success with C235 at least  based on a
    thread at the Mint forum, seems to require you to install sane-airscan

    read the full thread at:
    https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=364633

    As that seemed promising, I thought I'd give it a try. However, I
    couldn't install the sane-airscan package on Ubuntu 18 because of a
    library conflict. So I tried in-place upgrading to 20, but the result
    was the same, so now I'm on 22, and 'it just works'! Both printing &
    scanning now working fine.

    Thanks very much for that tip.

    The only downside is the that the two upgrades made a mess of my customisations, which, along with the double upgrades, is why I've been
    slow in coming back to you, as I've had to spend some tedious time
    putting everything back to how I want it - at least I've got the user desktops back now; just the awful login screen left to do, but it'll
    have to wait for now.

    Otherwise you can  setup a ftp and store scanned documents to the ftp
    and from there then do what you need with the image (crop, rotate, what ever).

    I'd already successfully set up the ability of the MFP to scan to a
    share on my QNAP NAS as a backstop against not being able to scan from
    some of my systems, partly because a thread from 2017 suggested that alternative solution to a woman with a similar problem with a Samsung
    MFP of not being able to scan from Linux. However, now this will only
    be needed from the XP PCs, which is an unlikely eventuality in any case.

    Thanks again.

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  • From J.O. Aho@21:1/5 to Java Jive on Tue Mar 12 17:26:51 2024
    XPost: alt.os.linux

    On 12/03/2024 12.42, Java Jive wrote:
    On 11/03/2024 15:41, J.O. Aho wrote:

    read the full thread at:
    https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=364633

    As that seemed promising, I thought I'd give it a try.  However, I
    couldn't install the sane-airscan package on Ubuntu 18 because of a
    library conflict.  So I tried in-place upgrading to 20, but the result
    was the same, so now I'm on 22, and 'it just works'!  Both printing & scanning now working fine.

    Thanks very much for that tip.

    Just happen to find it when I was trying to find the xerox universal configuration tool, which seems to been the way with older MFP could be
    used in Linux.


    The only downside is the that the two upgrades made a mess of my customisations, which, along with the double upgrades, is why I've been
    slow in coming back to you, as I've had to spend some tedious time
    putting everything back to how I want it  -  at least I've got the user desktops back now; just the awful login screen left to do, but it'll
    have to wait for now.

    I used to make a backup of my /etc in the old days, then I could always
    take the old config files from there is something was messed up (of
    course not every config is stored there), now I just have a snapshot to
    take the files from and also only use rolling release distros, so don't
    need those upgrades.



    Otherwise you can  setup a ftp and store scanned documents to the ftp
    and from there then do what you need with the image (crop, rotate,
    what ever).

    I'd already successfully set up the ability of the MFP to scan to a
    share on my QNAP NAS as a backstop against not being able to scan from
    some of my systems, partly because a thread from 2017 suggested that alternative solution to a woman with a similar problem with a Samsung
    MFP of not being able to scan from Linux.  However, now this will only
    be needed from the XP PCs, which is an unlikely eventuality in any case.

    I just added that as a fall back, as didn't really know all the details
    and could have been something overseen.

    Great to hear you got it to work in the end.

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