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#1 2015-04-20 22:39:10

yochaigal
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From: Boston
Registered: 2011-02-06
Posts: 202

Image Scan! (iscan) takes a long time to start

I recently setup an Epson Premium XP-620 on my network (static IP).

I am able to scan with it using the epkowa driver - however when I start iscan it takes over 10 minutes to bring up the GUI, which then allows me to continue scanning.
I read in the wiki that this can happen if other drivers are enabled in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf - so I have remarked all of them out (except "net").
The problem continues.  Any idea? Thanks!

Installed packages:
⚡ yaourt epson |grep installed
1 community/iscan 2.30.1-7 [installed]
2 community/iscan-data 1.36.0-2 [installed]
40 aur/epson-inkjet-printer-201208w 1.0.0-8 [installed] (0)
105 aur/iscan-plugin-gt-f600 1.0.0_1-1 [installed] (0)
114 aur/iscan-plugin-network 1.1.1-10 [installed] (41)

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#2 2015-04-24 10:33:00

munzirtaha
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Registered: 2013-09-03
Posts: 15

Re: Image Scan! (iscan) takes a long time to start

My advice is to comment all but ONE (e.g. you may have epson, epson2 and epkowa enabled at the same time, try leaving only epkowa uncommented). Another thing to try then is to edit /etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf and explicitly add the correct usb, e.g:
usb 0x04b8 0x08a8

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#3 2015-04-24 11:00:12

yochaigal
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From: Boston
Registered: 2011-02-06
Posts: 202

Re: Image Scan! (iscan) takes a long time to start

It is a network printer/scanner - not USB.
Besides, I did exactly this already - I set the IP of the device in epkowa.conf and commented out every other device (save "net" and "epkowa") from dll.conf; same problem.

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#4 2015-04-24 13:21:51

mir91
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Registered: 2013-11-17
Posts: 143

Re: Image Scan! (iscan) takes a long time to start

I have the same problem (long startup delay) with an USB Epson scanner. Already removed everything except its entry from dll.conf, the epkowa.conf file only contains the USB-line with the device id, and that's it.
After the delay a box will popup that lets me choose from either "Epkowa unknown" which doesn't work and "Epkowa interpreter" which works. I wonder if this unknown thing is the cause for the delay, something gets probed that shouldn't get probed?

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#5 2015-04-24 14:47:47

munzirtaha
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Registered: 2013-09-03
Posts: 15

Re: Image Scan! (iscan) takes a long time to start

Do you face the same problem if you used xsane instead?

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#6 2015-04-24 22:27:27

mir91
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Registered: 2013-11-17
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Re: Image Scan! (iscan) takes a long time to start

munzirtaha wrote:

Do you face the same problem if you used xsane instead?

For me it's the same, whether I use
a) GIMP -> "Create image from XSane dialog", or
b) ImageScan
Ie long delay and then the dialogue with the 2 scanners of which the 2nd works.

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