Epsondoes list printer drivers and utilities on the Epson Download Center but the packages listed are .deb and .rpm packages. I have tried building the source files but it seems that it requires lsb (and I am not sure what this means, from what I read it seems they use a different directory structure).
Thank you so much for your reply. It helped greatly. Although
pamac build epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2
did not work for me, looking through the AUR I found another that did:
pamac build epson-inkjet-printer-escpr.
I downloaded first a file called epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2_1.0.9-1lsb3.2_i386.deb, and extracted it. Then I went to Settings -> Printers -> Add one. I managed the installation of the printer driver. After that I tried several times to print a page from Writer, but it failed (The Document Print Status says the status is "stopped", I tried reprint, but no luck).
The third file I downloaded is iscan-bundle-1.0.0.x86.deb.tar.gz. After extracting it, I found there an install.sh file. I managed to run sudo .../install.sh, but after installation, I didn't find any scanner inside the Settings -> Hardware area. I don't know if the scanner installation is OK or not.
By using the network plug-in, you can connect to a scanner that is directly attached to the network.Please note that scanning over the network is only supported in a client/ server setup.Scanners directly attached to the network are not supported.
The solution worked in a Huawei XMate laptop with Linux Mint 20, not from the command line using imagescan, but using the Document Scanner software. Before changing imagescan.conf, the scanner would not be found. After the specs were put in, the scanner worked without trouble. Here is the imagescan.conf from my laptop:
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