Using the Epson Perfection V39 II Scanner on Ubuntu

Post by woleium » Sat, Jun 13, 2026, 8:45 PM UTC

hakfoo wrote: post #10

On the one hand, it's nice that Epson provided a Linux package. On the other, it's a pain in the arse that it's specific to a handful of distributions. I had a V33, and I use Void. At one point I was able to get it shimmed together, there was a wrapper package for the vendor-specific modules, but eventually it stopped working, so I went to the Goodwill and came home with a Canon LIDE 100 that Just Worked with SANE. I…

Post by benj111 » Sun, Jun 14, 2026, 9:24 AM UTC

forinti wrote: post #6

My mom recently asked me to print something on her old HP printer from her laptop with Windows. I was having a hard time (the laptop runs very slowly although it is an i5 with 16GB of RAM) so I installed hplip on my laptop and printed it from there. I had to smile at how easy things have become in Linux that Windows got me frustrated and Linux solved the issue so quickly.