Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[rcrsn51]

In the past, Canon MP units were handled by the SANE scanning system and the built-in "pixma" backend driver. So if your Puppy had an up-to-date version of SANE, the scanner would be auto-detected and you could scan with Xsane or Peasyscan. For example, Tahrpup has SANE v1.0.23. For older Puppies, there is a PET installer package for pixma v1.0.23 attached below.

But many of the recent MX and MG models are NOT SANE-compatible. They require their own drivers from Canon and use Canon's ScangearMP scanning program. I used to build individual driver PETS for these models as they were requested, but that job became unmanageable. So I developed the candi tool that lets you install the scanner on your own. Go to the Canon printer section for instructions.

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ScangearMP works with networked units. Start it from the Graphic menu, perform an Update operation and wait to locate your device. Canon detects a networked scanner by its MAC address instead of the usual IP address.

Pixma-capable units should also be networkable, although this is untested. Open the file /etc/sane.d/pixma.conf and add this line, using the scanner's IP address:

[charlie6]

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)

[rcrsn51]

[charlie6]

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

[charlie6]

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

[muggins]

Charlie,

forget my post...I must have been in zombie mode, as I see you're not after gray scan, but B&W.

[charlie6]

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

[ronaldg3]

Thanks for the pets rcsrn51, all systems are now GO whereas before I could not get the darn thing to work.

[charlie6]

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:

[rcrsn51]

[01micko]

Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou Mr rcrsn51kind sir!

Got the mp490 printing and scanning way faster than in windows (in luci-213)

Cheers

[rcrsn51]

Glad to help.

[jockjunior]

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

[rcrsn51]

Open a terminal and type the command

[jockjunior]

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