Trying to get Epson all in one to scan

**john_burns2** · June 8th, 2014

I have an Epson Stylus SX-415 all in one printer scanner (yeah I know Epson support for Linux is pretty poor) I have managed to get the printer working, but can't scan anything. I have Xsane (0.998) installed. When I tried to use this, a message telling me it needs a backend installing Looking on the internet I have found that it needs backend 1.0.214. I have managed to download this tar.gz file to my desktop. OK what on earth do I do now? Research, suggests I need a degree in computer science.

Opening the terminal fills me with dread, so some extremely simple instructions would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

**MrSteve** · June 8th, 2014

i have a epson sx435w which prints over wifi but only scans when connected by usb

i download the required linux drivers from the epson site
this gives you the scanner drivers for linux place into the search box sx410 ...

http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/se...duleFromResult

**john_burns2** · June 8th, 2014

Thanks Mr Steve, I did try the Epson download page, but it didn't come up with any drivers for my model.. However, I have solved it using the synaptic package manager. Accessed SPM and searched for xsane and sane. Found a package with the same extension (1.0.2xx) and selected it for installation. Works a treat now and so much easier than trying to use the terminal and the potential to screw my system up.