Kodak ESP 5250 printer/scanner, page scanning gives I/O error

[Jason]

I noticed that Opera seems to look alot like Chromium/Chrome. Did you try Chromium to see if it's more to your liking?

Otherwise, I guess you're stuck deciding which is more important to you, Opera or the scanner support. It's too bad that Opera doesn't have a flatpak version.

guess you could try running the Windows version of Opera using WINE  but no idea how well that will work.

[ssfc72]

Not much of an issue, with having to use Firefox instead of Opera, when I do have the scanning working on the Kodak 5250.
I only use this desktop computer occasionally, to use the attached ptinter/scanner.

Also of note, the Simple Scan software works faster/better than the Kodak scanner software, running under Windoz! :-)

[Jason]

Also of note, the Simple Scan software works faster/better than the Kodak scanner software, running under Windoz! :-)

Cool!

[fox]

I was just reading a scanning article in the May issue of Linux Format. They mentioned that some scanners stopped working when Ubuntu 18.04 replaced 16.04 as the LTS. I suspect that this coincides with the versions of Mint that do and do not work. One of the suggestions they made was to set up a virtual machine using a version of Ubuntu (or Mint in your case) that works. Would that be worth doing? - you could then run the lastest version of Mint.