All I want to do is scan with a Canon all-in-one, Ubuntu.

All I want to do is scan with a Canon all-in-one, Ubuntu. Why should I need to be a fucking programmer to do this? Printing was easy-peasy. Scanning...ARGHLEBARGLE.

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  1. Larry LadeMarch 24, 2014 at 7:01 PM

    You might have to find a backport of the bleeding-edge driver version to get SANE to work with newer stuff.
    Try (link to some old stuff)

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  2. Brian TakleMarch 24, 2014 at 8:22 PM

    It depends a lot on the device make. I have an HP all-in-one and it worked out of the box. (Note: HP is really Linux-friendly.)

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  3. Casey G.March 24, 2014 at 8:34 PM

    I replaced an HP that scanned fine...

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  4. Keith HoovestolMarch 25, 2014 at 1:04 PM

    is it wireless printer?  some printers only scan when using usb printer cable.  seriously that is a thing with my printer and it pissed me off.

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  5. Casey G.March 25, 2014 at 1:05 PM

    No, it's a Linux thing. I might be forced to boot into Windows to scan.

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  6. Larry LadeMarch 26, 2014 at 8:11 PM

    What model of printer do you have? What version of Ubuntu are you running?

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  7. Casey G.March 26, 2014 at 8:20 PM

    It's a Canon ImageClass MF4880dw. Ubuntu 12.04.

    I found a bunch of stuff about enabling the backend for Xsane, but my model wasn't listed in the file I tried to edit. And I basically know nothing about terminal commands when I can't just cut and paste.

    I appreciate it, Larry Lade but don't knock yourself out!

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  8. Larry LadeMarch 26, 2014 at 9:04 PM

    Ah, that's pretty new. Support for that appeared in pixma driver 0.17.6 as "i-SENSYS MF4800 Series". There's a report of someone getting it to work right six weeks ago.

    Rather than figure out how to pull the latest version from git, you should give this repo a shot:
    https://launchpad.net/~rolfbensch/+archive/sane-git
    That will have the very latest (possibly buggy) SANE.

    The "good news" is you could just wait a year or so, and it will probably work just fine out of the box.

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  9. Casey G.March 26, 2014 at 9:05 PM

    I will give it a shot. Thanks.

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