{"id":2037,"date":"2008-10-02T13:54:14","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T10:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mummila.net\/swirling\/?p=54"},"modified":"2010-09-23T18:15:28","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T15:15:28","slug":"making-the-epson-perfection-660-scanner-work-with-xsane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/2008\/10\/02\/making-the-epson-perfection-660-scanner-work-with-xsane\/","title":{"rendered":"Making the Epson Perfection 660 scanner work with xsane"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looks like this takes a while without ready-made instructions, so I’ll jot ’em down here for future reference.<\/p>\n

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  1. Pick up the Scan Tool<\/a> zip archive from Epson’s site (not sure if the link works, but it’s in the support section. I picked Windows XP as my OS, the Linux option took me to a site which didn’t mention the 660 so I don’t know about that.<\/li>\n
  2. Extract Euro\/DATA\/BIN\/TAIL_061.BIN<\/code> from the archive.<\/li>\n
  3. Toss the file into a suitable directory; I chose to create \/usr\/local\/share\/sane\/snapscan<\/code> for this purpose.<\/li>\n
  4. Edit \/etc\/sane.d\/snapscan.conf<\/code> and fix the firmware line to point to TAIL_061.BIN<\/code> in wherever you put it in the previous point.<\/li>\n
  5. Add your unprivileged self to the scanner<\/code> group. Log out and back in to make it actual.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    That’s it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Getting the 660 to work requires downloading a binary firmware blob and then pointing SANE to use it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8662,3153],"class_list":["post-2037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-epson","tag-sane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2659,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions\/2659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}