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

Sat Jul 12 09:02:26 UTC 2014

Thanks Frans,

I had already found some instructions ("SANE - Installing a scanner that
isn't auto-detected") on the Ubuntu forums and followed all their
instructions:

- the SANE project says that the scanner is NOT supported but "supported by
the epkowa backend plus non-free interpreter" whatever that is. After doing
everything that it told me to (including epson2 in the
/etc/sane.d/dll.conf), I made the big advance that now the system
recognised that it had a scanner even though it still can't talk to it.

On 11 July 2014 19:12, Frans de waal <meesterarend at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Jul 11, 2014 5:13 PM, "Bill Cairns" <cairnsww at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >>
> >>
> >> ________________________________
> >> 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
> >>
> >> Sent from my Note 2
> >>
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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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> I have prvious sucess in scanning with a "unsuported" device by editing a
> file containing the suported scanners... not able to get to my pc now
> though, but the basics is to list the device id... and it should work .
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