---Sane backend 'canon_pixma' for CANON's scanners---
DESCRIPTION
Because of changes in CANON's network communication protocols,some of CANON's scanner
became unsuported by sane.
This backend is for making the CANON's scanners, using the new communication protocol,
to be supported by sane and any of the frontends implementing sane. It reuse the code
of the scangearmp2 program to access to the scanners functionalities and implementing
the sane functions.
It was done as a patch to have a minimun impact on the orginal scangearmp2 source code,
but currently we choose to abandon this idea because it was difficult to make the
releases and had not that much interrest for the developement.
For ubuntu-based distributions: https://launchpad.net/~thierry-f/+archive/ubuntu/fork-michael-gruz
## Add 2018
XK80 series
TS9580 series
TS9500 series
TS8280 series
TS8230 series
TS8200 series
TS6280 series
TS6230 series
TS6200 series
TR9530 series
TR4500 series
G3010 series
G4010 series
E4200 series
LiDE 400
LiDE 300
# Add before 2018
TS9100 series
TS8100 series
TS6100 series
TR8500 series
TR7500 series
TS5100 series
TS3100 series
E3100 series
TS9180 series
TS8180 series
TS6180 series
TR8580 series
TS8130 series
TS6130 series
TR8530 series
TR7530 series
XK50 series
XK70 series
MG7500 series
MG6600 series
MG5600 series
MG2900 series
MB2000 series
MB2300 series
MB5000 series
MB5300 series
E460 series
MX490 series
E480 series
MG7700 series
MG6900 series
MG6800 series
MG5700 series
MG3600 series
G3000 series
TS9000 series
TS8000 series
TS6000 series
TS5000 series
MG3000 series
E470 series
G4000 series
MB2100 series
MB2700 series
MB5100 series
MB5400 series
# Add 2019
G6000 series
G6080 series
TS5300 series
TS5380 series
TS6300 series
TS6380 series
TS7330 series
TS8300 series
TS8380 series
TS8330 series
XK60 series
TS6330 series
TS3300 series
E3300 series
ADVANTAGES
Better image quality than 'pixma' backend (with an output image size of 2480x3507 pixels) Usable in Wi-fi.
STATE
Tested with sane 1.0.25 and 1.0.27 (may not work for lower versions) Currently the backend allow image in A4 format. The scan works in color or in gray map. The options are not well handled, so they might not work. The color option allow to chose between color or graymap modes. The resolution option allow to have a hight or low quality for the output.
KNOWN PROBLEMS
When using xsane : bug with the display of the selected color option (Fixed)
REQUIREMENTS
Requirements for scangearmp2 in : scangearmp2/README.md
INSTALLATION
For debian systems :
Get sources :
mkdir build
cd build
git clone https://github.com/Ordissimo/scangearmp2.git
Get developement environnement :
apt update
apt install debhelper libglib2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libtool-bin libjpeg-dev
# or, if failure, use:
apt install debhelper libglib2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libtool libjpeg-dev
cp -a scangearmp2 scangearmp2-3.90
rm -rf scangearmp2-3.90/.git scangearmp2-3.90/debian/
tar cJvf scangearmp2_3.90.orig.tar.xz scangearmp2-3.90
Build Sources :
cd scangearmp2
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc ##
Install :
apt install ../scangearmp2_3.90-1_amd64.deb
For redhat systems :
Get developement environnement :
yum install gtk2-devel
yum install libusb-devel
yum install libjpeg-devel
yum install gettext-devel
yum install libtool
yum install automake
yum install autoconf
yum install rpm-build
Get sources :
wget https://github.com/Ordissimo/scangearmp2/releases/download/3.90-2/scangearmp2.spec
wget https://github.com/Ordissimo/scangearmp2/releases/download/3.90-2/scangearmp2_3.90-2ubuntu.artful.tar.xz
tar xvf scangearmp2_3.90-2ubuntu.artful.tar.xz
tar czvf scangearmp2_3.90.orig.tar.gz scangearmp2
mv scangearmp2_3.90.orig.tar.gz ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/
Or, from git repository
git archive --format=tar --prefix=scangearmp2-3.90/ HEAD |gzip >scangearmp2_3.90.orig.tar.gz
mv scangearmp2_3.90.orig.tar.gz ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/
Build Sources :
rpmbuild -bp scangearmp2.spec
rpmbuild -bc --short-circuit scangearmp2.spec
rpmbuild -bi --short-circuit scangearmp2.spec
rpmbuild -ba scangearmp2.spec
Install :
rpm -i ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/scangearmp2-3.90-2.x86_64.rpm
Activate the backend
For all distributions you need to activate the backend :
echo "canon_pixma" >> /etc/sane.d/dll.conf # for activate the backend in sane
Firewall :
In case of problem with firewalld
you can copy the service definition 'scangearmp2/etc/canon-scan.xml'
into '/etc/firewalld/services/' and activate the service (for the adequate zone(s))
sudo cp scangearmp2/etc/canon-scan.xml /etc/firewalld/services/
firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=home --add-service=canon-scan
Nota:
- A way to list detected scanners is
scanimage -L - To see firewall's rejected packages
firewall-cmd --set-log-denied=alland then calljournalctl -f - See https://firewalld.org/documentation/service/options.html
LICENSE
Licence of scangearmp2 in : scangearmp2/README.md
The following files are licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. (See the file scangearmp2/COPYING.) :
- scangearmp2/src/sane
- debian/patches/series
- debian/source/format