Epson Inktank L350 and Linux

[Archonsg]

Hey guys, anyone owning this printer (or any of the recent inktank series) and got the scanner to work on ubuntu?
I got the drivers off from Epson's site, namely iscan-data and iscan-for-ltd7 as I understand that ubuntu uses ltd7 (not 3) but for the life of me, I can't get the scanner to work. Oddly enough, of all the distros I have tried, only OpenSuse had the scanner running (haven't tried fedora yet) and all other distros were *buntus / debian variants.
The printer itself works fine, it's just the scanner that borks out on me.

 

[arochester]

Does this help? http://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/epson_l350.html

 

[Archonsg]

Thanks. Will try it out.
Though tonight's the night I'll be nuking my kubuntu test set and finally go onto Fedora. (my endless search for a linux, gaming friendly desktop)

 

[arochester]

Just looked at vuescan again. Need to pay for it.

Look here instead:
http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/searchModule

 

[Archonsg]

Yeah. I might not mind if its like $3.90 or so but essentially $40 and $80 for the standard and pro version respectively?
Does anyone actually pay that kind of price for software that would otherwise come free by any other means?

Like I said, its not that I can't get the scanner running, (works fine on windows, of course) its just that I would like to run it on debian / ubuntu, and if I really have to use it on a linux set, I had it running fine on OpenSUSE.