[OT] Canon Pixma G3501 & *Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: though I CAN print, I CANNOT scan.

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

This conversation has become OT. The OP wants help with a Canon Pixma
G3501. He also recognized that the possible suggestions offered to
him so far didn't apply in his case and has since moved on to ask for
additional help, which I can't provide, but perhaps you can.

Below will be my last contribution to the OT portion of this thread.

Brian wrote:

>The MFC-J6920DW does not use a backend provided by the SANE project
>but one provided by Brother.

See the "Brother Scanners" section of the
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/sane#Brother_Scanners page and
you'll find that "Brother offers proprietary SANE drivers for its
family of network scanners and multi-function devices."

>A failure to scan over a wireless link is either a matter for
>Brother or (more likely) a user induced issue.

You seem to have a pattern of drawing conclusions without obtaining
information.

>Pointing a finger at GNU/Linux with either Brother or Canon scanners
>sweeps both problems under the carpet.

The scanner drivers provided by Brother are offered only when you
select "Linux" as your operating system, so it's not finger-pointing
or GNU/Linux bashing to point out that those fail to fully perform.
It's a simple observation.

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.