[ubuntu-za] Scanners in general and Canon K10339 in particular.

Thu Jul 10 21:53:57 UTC 2014

Hi Bill,

Don't have a

I use xsane, which is in the repos

I also install libsane-extras

make sure that libsane is installed ( I think it is a xsane dependancy )

try adding this repo to sources.list ( I think there are printer and scanner drivers )

# Canon LBP drivers - Ubuntu - PPA
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/michael-gruz/canon-trunk/ubuntu trusty main

William

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Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] Scanners in general and Canon K10339 in particular.

Here you go. My daughter had the same issue. http://support-au.canon.com.au/P/search?model=PIXMA+MP250&menu=download&filter=0&tagname=g_os&g_os=Linux
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On 10 July 2014 7:51:37 PM Bill Cairns <cairnsww at gmail.com> wrote:

I have found refrences on the web to esci-interpreter-gt-f720_0.0.1-2_amd64.deb and a suggestion that it should be included too. The trouble is that esci-interpreter-gt-f720_0.0.1-2_amd64.deb is not on the download site and does not seem available anywhere that I can find ...

On 10 July 2014 14:38, Bill Cairns <cairnsww at gmail.com<mailto:cairnsww at gmail.com>> wrote:
I find myself swimming in water that is far deeper than my toes can reach the bottom ...

A friend, who is pretty computer literate and who has been pure MS Windows for years, has been forcibly converted to Ubuntu 14.04. Not by me - I am not that brash although I admire his method of evangelism - but by her Geek adviser (who is now, unfortunately, sick and unable to help). She is pretty happy with everything except for the fact that she can't use the scanner in her all-in-one Canon MP250. (Actually that is my first problem - the printer is a MP250 but the scanner might be a K10339. At times they seem to have different model numbers).

I had a quick look at her system and sure enough when I tried iscan, it simply said "No devices" or some such disdainful message implying that I should connect a scanner before presuming to scan. The scanner was on and connected and the printer works. I had a quick look at the Internet from her computer but could not find what looked like the right driver anywhere. In fact Canon seems to go out of its way to prevent you finding drivers.

She has a dual boot system and I loaded Windows 7, but the Fax / Scan program could not find the scanner either. I don't think that there is a problem with the scanner though - she said it worked recently and :-

I don't have a Canon scanner of my own but I do have an Epson V350 which works fine on Windows XP,  7 and Windows 8 but I have never tried connecting it to Linux. When I got home, I connected it up and tried to get it going.

At first, I got the same message as I had been getting with the Canon - No device connected. This time though I was able to find what I think are the right drivers (iscan_2.29.3-1~usb0.1.ltdl7_amd64.deb and iscan-data_1.29.0-2_all.deb from http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/du/02/DriverDownloadInfo.do?LG2=EN&CN2=&DSCMI=28880&DSCCHK=ec6ec9b0ae7d86aeadf2c0b88252dbe4149a9831). Now I have made a great advance - iscan seems to find the device quite happily although the bad news is that I can't actually persuade it to do a scan. (This is all an academic exercise in that I don't need a scanner on this Linux machine ... I am just trying to understand things a bit better).

I would appreciate any advice you might be able to give me. I don't want the nice lady to throw up her hands and say that she prefers Windows!

Bill

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