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rcrsn51

Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 13129 Location: Stratford, Ontario
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Posted: Fri 22 May 2009, 09:12 Post subject:
Canon MP/MX/MG Scanner Drivers - Updated 2016 |
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This project has been discontinued. The information was out of date and unreliable.
Last edited by rcrsn51 on Thu 28 Mar 2019, 09:18; edited 82 times in total
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charlie6

Joined: 30 Jun 2008 Posts: 1231 Location: Saint-Gérard / Walloon part of Belgium
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Posted: Mon 25 May 2009, 03:13 Post subject:
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Hi rcsrn51,
again, many thanks for your efforts and time !
my MP160 runs on sane at now !
Cheers
Charlie
outside post subject:
I also have been looking for running the scanner...(maybe am I dreaming?..never knows!) ...with empty ink cartridges ...but as now no result (aargh!..damned chips!) I have bought and installed new ones to get use of it!
(I should better have bought a separate scanner)
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rcrsn51

Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 13129 Location: Stratford, Ontario
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Posted: Mon 25 May 2009, 08:38 Post subject:
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Quote: | also have been looking for running the scanner...(maybe am I dreaming?..never knows!) ...with empty ink cartridges ...but as now no result (aargh!..damned chips!) I have bought and installed new ones to get use of it! |
So you can't run the scanner part of your printer once it runs out of ink? Unbelievable!
I was thinking of buying some used Canon all-in-ones for testing purposes on the scanners, but I guess there is no point in doing that.
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charlie6

Joined: 30 Jun 2008 Posts: 1231 Location: Saint-Gérard / Walloon part of Belgium
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Posted: Wed 12 Aug 2009, 03:35 Post subject:
Subject description: Canon MP160 on Puppy 4.1.2 |
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Hi rcrsn51,
...reinstalling my system,
I installed both "...1.10..pet" and the "pixma-mp150.pet", these last one to get /usr/local/bin/pixmascan installed.
Before installing "pixma-mp150.pet", I also had to manually insert "canon_mfp" into dll.conf.
Works nice on toutou412 (french translation of puppy412)
Thanks
Cheers
Charlie
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charlie6

Joined: 30 Jun 2008 Posts: 1231 Location: Saint-Gérard / Walloon part of Belgium
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Posted: Wed 09 Sep 2009, 02:59 Post subject:
Subject description: How to setup XSane for black and white saved copy ? |
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Hi rcrsn51 !
Would you have any idea about how to setup XSane for black and white saved copy ?
" grey " scanmode leads indeed to rather huge MBytes-sized files, whereas B&W setting needs only a few 100KB-sized.
Cheers
Charlie
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muggins
Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6759 Location: hobart
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Posted: Wed 09 Sep 2009, 05:15 Post subject:
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Charlie,
forget my post...I must have been in zombie mode, as I see you're not after gray scan, but B&W.
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charlie6

Joined: 30 Jun 2008 Posts: 1231 Location: Saint-Gérard / Walloon part of Belgium
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Posted: Sun 07 Feb 2010, 02:53 Post subject:
Subject description: using MP160 on puppy 4.3.1 |
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Hi,
now using puppy 4.3.1
libsane-pixma.so.1.0.20 is already installed in usr/lib/sane on a fresh puppy 4.3.1;
I have only installed pixma-mp150.pet
canon_mfp is present in dll.conf
Sane freezes till I get now this message:
"I/O error input"
nb: I tried also installing the scangearmp_common-1.10-1.i386.pet and modified the symlink to get libsane-pixma.so.1.0.19 activated; but in this case sane answers "there is no USB peripheral connected and "libsub" seems to be outdated.
Back to libsane-pixma.so.1.0.20 gets the MP160 again recognized but not working...see above paragraph.
edited:
I went to accidentaly erase /usr/lib/sane/libsane-canon_mfp.so...ooops!
I reinstalled scangearmp_common-1.10-1.i386.pet to and modify the link to activate libsane-pixma.so.1.0.19. Restarted X and now the SCANNER WORKS!
Sorry if all this looks a bit confused!
thanks in advance for any advice
Cheers, charlie
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ronaldg3
Joined: 02 Apr 2009 Posts: 2
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Posted: Wed 14 Apr 2010, 12:09 Post subject:
MP210 on Puppy421 |
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Thanks for the pets rcsrn51, all systems are now GO whereas before I could not get the darn thing to work.
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charlie6

Joined: 30 Jun 2008 Posts: 1231 Location: Saint-Gérard / Walloon part of Belgium
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Posted: Mon 10 May 2010, 07:34 Post subject:
Subject description: « I/O error while reading on peripheral » |
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Hi rcrsn51,
-Using now turbopup_Xtreme-v1.0 (= pup420 derivative) frugall-
I had like tu use Canon MP160 (usb connected) both scanner and printer features.
I have installed:
mp150_sane-0.14.4.pet and
scangearmp_common-1.10-1.i386.pet
and got rid of cups1.4b2 using
cups-1.3.9-i486.pet and
cupsd.conf.zip
according to your instructions (many thanks to you and Patriot!)
1.Printer : works fine
2.Scanner :
2.1. works only from command line like this one:
Code: | pixmascan -m gray -r 150 -g 1.2 -p A4 -1 -W -f tiff,p file.tif |
2.2. From Xsane gui: I cannot get anything to save; when scanning is finished, the following message is displayed:
Code: | I/O error while reading on peripheral |
Only the »preview» works.
Before installing the printer, the scanner was working OK from Xsane gui.
I have searched the forum for relevant posts about this but found none.
Thanks for any suggestion
Cheers, Charlie
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rcrsn51

Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 13129 Location: Stratford, Ontario
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Posted: Mon 10 May 2010, 09:47 Post subject:
Subject description: « I/O error while reading on peripheral » |
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charlie6 wrote: | Before installing the printer, the scanner was working OK from Xsane gui. |
Hmmmm (to quote Patriot). The CUPS 1.3.x installers also modify the permissions of USB printer devices. Maybe that's what has caused your scanner to fail after upgrading CUPS.
You might be stuck using the command line.
My HP scanner works with the CUPS upgrade, so it's not a problem for everyone.
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01micko

Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8787 Location: qld
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Posted: Sun 18 Jul 2010, 23:38 Post subject:
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Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou Mr rcrsn51kind sir!
Got the mp490 printing and scanning way faster than in windows (in luci-213)
Cheers
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rcrsn51

Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 13129 Location: Stratford, Ontario
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Posted: Mon 19 Jul 2010, 00:03 Post subject:
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Glad to help.
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jockjunior
Joined: 29 Jan 2008 Posts: 150 Location: Lancashire,U.K.
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Posted: Wed 28 Jul 2010, 09:11 Post subject:
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Hi,
jusr installed my mp250 using Patriot's pets. Using Puppy 5.01 and with the quirky backend installed can access the scanner with xsane but scangear refuses to se it.Have uninstalled the scangearmp-1.40.pet and re installed it. The scangear entry shows up in Gimp 2.6 but cant find the scanner.
Am I doing som'at wrong?
Jock
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rcrsn51

Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 13129 Location: Stratford, Ontario
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Posted: Wed 28 Jul 2010, 09:42 Post subject:
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Open a terminal and type the command
Do you get any error messages?
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jockjunior
Joined: 29 Jan 2008 Posts: 150 Location: Lancashire,U.K.
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Posted: Thu 29 Jul 2010, 08:19 Post subject:
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sorry for delay in replying, proud owner of 2 fractured elbows and its slowing me up.
error message cannot find available scanners and gtk warning unable to locate theme clearlooks
cheers
Jock
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