Scanner (Canon n1240u) fails with "invalid parameter"

[MR ZenWiz]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 9:45 AM, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I believe it is something in xsane that is the problem, but since
> their site is unavailable, finding anything on that is a bit of a
> trick.
>
I have a temporary solution in a shell script I wrote to use scanimage
as the base scan program.  It works, but it's less flexible than
xsane.  Oh well.