{"id":210,"date":"2017-10-10T10:41:08","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T09:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philroche.net\/?p=210"},"modified":"2017-10-10T10:41:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T09:41:08","slug":"xerox-documate-3220-scanner-on-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/2017\/10\/10\/xerox-documate-3220-scanner-on-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Xerox DocuMate 3220 scanner on Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"

TLDR;<\/b> This blog post is confirming that the Xerox DocuMate 3220 does work on Ubuntu and shows how to add permissions for non root users to use it.<\/p>\n

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I was using my wife’s old printer\/scanner all in one<\/a> for scanning documents and it worked well but it was a pain to scan multiple documents so I decided to get a business scanner with auto feed and duplex scanning.<\/p>\n

I went for the Xerox DocuMate 3220<\/a> as it stated it was SANE compatible so would work on Linux.<\/p>\n

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With an RRP of ~\u20ac310 I managed to get a refurbished model for \u20ac98 delivered from ebay but sadly I didn’t do enough research as the scanner is not SANE supported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In my research in trying to add the scanner to the xerox_mfp SANE backend config (which didn’t work) I discovered that VueScan<\/a> was available for Linux and it’s supported scanners<\/a> did list some of the Xerox DocuMate series. I had used VueScan on my old MacBook Pro and was very happy with so I gave it a shot. Note that VueScan is not Open Source and not free but it is excellent software and well worth the \u20ac25 purchase price.<\/p>\n

Lo and behold it found the scanner and it supported all of the scanner’s features.<\/p>\n