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

[Bill Cairns]

THanks William.

xsane spends a lot of time looking at the scanner and then tells me:

Failed to open device 'epkowa:interpreter:003:006 Device busy


On 10 July 2014 23:53, William Walter Kinghorn <williamk at dut.ac.za> wrote:

>  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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> *From:* ubuntu-za-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [
> ubuntu-za-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] on behalf of Tim Johnson [
> Tim at cybersmart.co.za]
> *Sent:* 10 July 2014 20:18
> *To:* Ubuntu South African Local Community; Bill Cairns
> *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
> Cheers
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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> 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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