I have an Epson ET-3600 (ecotank multifunction). When I first installed Mint it was all installed fine and I could print and I could scan... everything you want. Then at some point I enabled the Firewall, some days went by and I was printing fine, but then I needed to scan... no scanner detected. Ergh... Tried installing Epson's software but they had outdated dependencies which I had trouble finding and it was all too much stuffing around, so I gave up on that path, and besides - it was working before. So why not now? What had changed?
I didn't initially consider the Firewall, but after a lot of frustration I tried with Firewall off, and it found the scanner again - happy days. But I didn't want to always be switching the Firewall off every time I needed to scan because one day I'd forget to put it back on... so I went searching for the rule I needed to add to the Firewall to enable scanning. I came across this document from Epson
https://epson.com/faq/SPT_C11CG18201~fa ... 6127635532
All scanning seems to be using the UDP port, so I just tried a new rule for each UDP mentioned in the document coming from the Epson's IP address, and discovered UDP on 3289 allows scanning.
So it was simply a case of adding a rule to allow inbound udp connections for the IP address (or possible address range) for the Epson, and all is well.
Hope someone out there might find this useful.
Epson wifi scanning probs? Try this
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Re: Epson wifi scanning probs? Try this
I did, I have the ET-2550 which is the same machine basically.