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Open Image Capture, and voila - the scanner works perfectly (at least, in OS X Panther and Tiger), both with the Image Capture interface and with the TWAIN interface.For example, the output will be: device `epson:libusb:014:007-04b8-0105-ff-ff' is a Epson StylusScan2000 flatbed scannerThe item might be listed repeatedly several times. Repeat the scanimage -L command in the Terminal, and now you will see the previously undetected scanner.Edit the nf file through the SANE preference pane (click the "Configure" button of the appropriate back-end), adding the scanner's product ID and device ID in a new line at the end, after the last libusb comments: usb 0x04b8 0x0105The product ID and device ID are 0x04b8 (Epson) and 0x0105 (the Stylus Scan 2000), which can also be obtained from the sane-find-scanner command, where they are listed, in this case, as vendor=0x04b8 and product=0x0105.I discovered that one could use the SANE preference pane to edit the nf file located in /usr/local/etc/sane.d (or the similar file that applies to your scanner back-end the editing can also be done manually with a text editor, of course). It was also unsupported with SANE, so, what to do? Now, my problem was that the SS2000 didn't appear with the scanimage - L command, and so was unusable. The second one will list your scanner(s) detected thorugh the libusb interface. The first command will return a long series of text strings in the Terminal, listing your USB devices. Turn on the scanner and test the connection in the Terminal: $ sane-find-scanner$ scanimage -LFor this to work, /usr/local/bin must be in your path.
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So, yet another time, open source software comes to the rescue, with Mattias Ellert's excellent OS X port of the TWAIN SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) Interface. The first problem is that Image Capture only supports a limited number of newer Epson scanners natively, and of course not the SS2000. Also, the latest Gutenprint - the new name of Gimp-Print - works without problems (version 5.0.0b4), optionally with the fast usbtb CUPS backend they are both available at the gimp-print site.īut what about the scanner module of the SS2000? One could always use VueScan, which indeed works - but personally, I wanted a free solution, more integrated into OS X through the included Image Capture program.
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For the printing side, the problem is easily solved, as there are two solutions available: the unofficial SS2000 driver (works in 10.2, 10.3, and 10.4), which is a hack of the Stylus Color 740 driver included with OS X (the printer module of the Stylus Scan 2000 is indeed a SC740), and the Gimp-Print driver included in OS X or downloadbale via that link, which is fairly complete and with full support for the SS2000. One of my printers is an Epson Stylus Scan 2000 multifunction device, which has never had official Epson OS X drivers.