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rcrsn51 · Posted: Thu 29 Jul 2010, 08:42 Post subject:

I built the scangearmp package using my MP490 and I didn't think that there was anything in it that was particularly model-specific. I will get back to you on this.

jockjunior · Joined: 29 Jan 2008 Posts: 143 Location: Lancashire,U.K.

Cheers Mate

Jock

rcrsn51 · Posted: Thu 29 Jul 2010, 09:48 Post subject:

Try installing the attached PET. It contains some MP250-specific stuff.

jockjunior · Joined: 29 Jan 2008 Posts: 143 Location: Lancashire,U.K.

double post

jockjunior · Joined: 29 Jan 2008 Posts: 143 Location: Lancashire,U.K.

rcrsn51 ,
thanks for that. Using scangearmp-1.40 pet and scangearmp-250series-1.40 pet the scannernow shows up in menu and in gimp and works from both.

cheers my friend and thank you again for your hard work, it is very much appreciated.

all the best

Jock

rcrsn51 · Posted: Thu 29 Jul 2010, 18:38 Post subject:

And thank you for reporting the problem.

charlie6 · Joined: 30 Jun 2008 Posts: 812 Location: South of Belgium

Hi rsrcn51
and many thanks keeping this thread up to date !
On puppy 4.2.1 live-cd session (having libusb-0.1) with Canon Pixma MP160 connected
(...Just getting a try from a live-cd session for reporting results)
+ installed
libgimp2.0-2.6.8.pet
libgio-2.0.so.0.pet (requested dependency for libgimp)
scangearmp-1.40.pet
scangearmp-250series-1.40.pet
(restarting JWM and X )
results:
menu entry "Canon Scangear scanner":
it does not start from menu;

starting from line command

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sat 31 Jul 2010, 11:53 Post subject:

@charlie6: That's odd. I just set up a fresh frugal install of 4.2.1 with my MP490 and I didn't get the GTK error. In fact, it ran fine even though libgio was missing.

This sounds like a hardware issue unrelated to the scanner. Do you have another machine or Puppy version you could try?

I will upload a PET that has the MP160-specific stuff. Maybe it will help. It is now listed in the main post.

Regarding a printer driver for your MP160. Patriot has made one here, but the download link is now dead. Perhaps if you send him a PM, he could upload the driver again.

If not, I may be able to build one for you. Have you already tried the Gutenprint driver that comes with Puppy?

Have you been looking at the Canon Europe site for drivers? I notice that they have no Linux listing for the MP160 while the Canon Australia site does. The North American Canon sites don't appear to support Linux at all.

charlie6 · Joined: 30 Jun 2008 Posts: 812 Location: South of Belgium

Hi rscrn51 !
Again thanks, thanks , for your reply !
I reply on your post:

crsrds · Joined: 29 Jun 2010 Posts: 14

Hi rcrsn,
I am trying to get puppy to use a parallel port printer. (Epson). I have the drivers for the printer. The problem is I do not have a parallel port on my computer so I will either need to use a serial to parallel converter or a USB to parallel converter.
Can you let me know if there a way I can do this. These converters need drivers I suppose, but the ones I see in the market do not have linux drivers. Any help would be most welcome.
TY,
crsrds.

rcrsn51 · Posted: Wed 04 Aug 2010, 15:24 Post subject:

Sorry. I have no experience with these devices.

crsrds · Joined: 29 Jun 2010 Posts: 14

Hi,
I just purchased a BAFO 1284 USB to parallel cable, connected it to an Epson dotmatrix printer, using lupu 5.1, it got detected as mnt/dev/usb/lp0. Using cups admin I clicked on find printer and selected the driver and bingo..it worked. Wasted too much time looking for drivers, which it did not need in the first place. Thank you rcrsn for the reply. Just placing this on record so it may help someone like me.
crsrds.

charlie6 · Joined: 30 Jun 2008 Posts: 812 Location: South of Belgium

Hi rscrn51,
many thanks for the MP160-specific pet:
it runs nice since a few weeks now! it's really very handy to use.
I appreciate very much the black and white scanning options (produces tinny sized files) which I am using the most for scanning and mailing hand sketches.

I appreciate also that now both printing and scanning functions of MP160 can be used within a puppy session (before I had to load the printer drivers to get a print; then the scanner was desactived).

Thanks again!
Cheers, Charlie

rcrsn51 · Posted: Tue 17 Aug 2010, 12:43 Post subject:

And thank you for testing it. It sounds like each Canon model will need its own PET in order to run the scangearmp program.

rcrsn51 · Posted: Mon 07 Feb 2011, 16:17 Post subject:

Attached below is the common package for the Scangear MP v1.60 series and the driver for the MP280.

You will need both. However, it appears that this series does NOT need the libgimp package.

If you own an MP280 and download these packages, would you please report back with their success or failure.