EPSON XP-2200 printer driver not found

Hello,

Have you installed a scanning software like xsane (or skanlite if you're using KDE)? Have you tried seeing if installing sane-airscan resolves your issue?

sudo apt update sudo apt install sane-airscan

If not, have you tried installing the drivers offered here?

Once that’s done, what do the commands return:

scanimage -L sane-find-scanner

Last possibility (though I doubt it's the issue since you can print), have you checked if your user profile belongs to the lp group? To do that, see what the command returns:

groups

If you need to add the user toto to the lp group, run:

sudo usermod -a -G lp toto

Good luck

Just a small clarification, if you are on KDE, skanlite is very good, but if you are not on KDE, it's better to install simple-scan or xsane (because skanlite would install half of KDE!)

Hello,

Instead of taking screenshots, which are impractical for everyone, could you simply copy and paste the content of your terminal while formatting it as explained here?

I see in the result of sane-find-scanner (#9) permission errors. And I also see in the result of groups (#10) that your user brigitte is not in the lp group. Therefore, I refer you to my message #5 to add it to the lp group:

sudo usermod -a -G lp brigitte

Then log out and relaunch your graphical session, check that your user is now in the lp group, and restart the sane-find-scanner command:

groups sane-find-scanner

Regarding #8, I suggest putting this lead on hold for now as we may not need it, and I'm not too keen on installing packages that are not directly from the official repositories. The advantage of the official repositories is that maintainers have verified their reliability and compatibility, which is not guaranteed when retrieving something from the Internet. Anyway, when it's time to explore this lead:

• You can decompress the tar.gz archive from your graphical explorer (right-click > Extract). If not, use the command tar -xzcf ...
• You can install a Debian package by double-clicking on it. This should launch your package manager, provided you have administrative rights and enter your password. Otherwise, you can install it with dpkg -i:

tar xzvf fichier.tar.gz sudo dpkg -i fichier.deb 

Good luck

Hello WalterP,
Thank you for your feedback.

Why did I have this printing and scanning issue with this new Epson, when my PC has used different printers (HP and Canon...) that worked automatically as soon as they were plugged in? I’m wondering about that...

In fact, it’s more surprising that it worked before. Normally, you can't use a printer without being in the lp group. More details here.

Why did I have to add the user brigitte to the lp group, when I am on brigitte's PC where I installed Mint 20.3 last year and I put her name during the installation?

When you install Debian/Ubuntu/Mint, you are offered to create a user profile. This user profile is then added to certain groups including lp. I've noticed that this is not the case for users created manually afterward (just compare the result of groups). So if you created the brigitte profile afterward and didn’t explicitly add her to the lp group, you are probably in that situation.

If you want to remove this package, you need to see under what name it appears in the result of dpkg -l.

dpkg -l | grep iscan

Let's assume (given the name of the archive) that it is iscan-gt-f720-bundle, you would then need to run:

sudo apt purge iscan-gt-f720-bundle

Good luck