cant get scanner to work on epson sx218 well sick of it all

If you had researched before you bought, you could have checked compatibility with your Ubuntu OS. It will work with Windows as Epson have made the DRIVERS for the printer. Sadly Epson support is very lacking for Linux so you will get issues. GOOD companies support Linux. These include (but are not limited to): HP, Brother and Canon. If you'd have grabbed one from these manufacturers (especially with HP), you wouln't have an issue as they make Linux drivers. With HP you wouldn't even have to do ANYTHING as the HPLIP software needed is in the default install, making it easier than Windows to install.

In short, RESEARCH what is available to you, then what you can afford, then what will work in Ubuntu. Support is getting a lot better (Canon once refused to support Linux but they are coming around) but sadly a lot of hardware simply isn't supported.

Buy HP next time :)

http://avasys.jp/eng/linux_driver/download/lsb/epson-inkjet/escp/

This may help

Models
Epson ME OFFICE 520
Epson ME OFFICE 620F
Epson Stylus NX220
Epson Stylus Office BX305F
Epson Stylus Office BX305FW
Epson Stylus Office TX320F
Epson Stylus Office TX325F
Epson Stylus SX218
Epson Stylus TX220
Epson Stylus TX228
WorkForce 320
WorkForce 323
WorkForce 325
Packages Size Manual
epson-inkjet-printer-workforce-320-sx218-1.0.0-1lsb3.2.i486.rpm
epson-inkjet-printer-workforce-320-sx218_1.0.0-1lsb3.2_i386.deb
epson-inkjet-printer-workforce-320-sx218-1.0.0-1lsb3.2.x86_64.rpm
epson-inkjet-printer-workforce-320-sx218_1.0.0-1lsb3.2_amd64.deb
epson-inkjet-printer-workforce-320-sx218-1.0.0-1lsb3.2.src.rpm
2649648 bytes
2649000 bytes
2655394 bytes
2652580 bytes
3171139 bytes

Seems it supports your printer, not sure about scanning though.

You can check the arch of your OS with:

uname -m

If you see 'i686', run this:

cd; wget http://linux.avasys.jp/drivers/lsb/epson-inkjet/stable/debian/dists/lsb3.2/main/binary-i386/epson-inkjet-printer-workforce-320-sx218_1.0.0-1lsb3.2_i386.deb; sudo dpkg -i ./epson-inkjet-printer-workforce-320-sx218_1.0.0-1lsb3.2_i386.deb; rm ./epson-inkjet-printer-workforce-320-sx218_1.0.0-1lsb3.2_i386.deb; sudo apt-get -f install;

if you see 'x86_64', run this:

cd; wget http://linux.avasys.jp/drivers/lsb/epson-inkjet/stable/debian/dists/lsb3.2/main/binary-amd64/epson-inkjet-printer-workforce-320-sx218_1.0.0-1lsb3.2_amd64.deb; sudo dpkg -i ./epson-inkjet-printer-workforce-320-sx218_1.0.0-1lsb3.2_amd64.deb; rm ./epson-inkjet-printer-workforce-320-sx218_1.0.0-1lsb3.2_amd64.deb; sudo apt-get -f install

HTH