[PLUG] Working with a Canon MP620 printer

[Richard C. Steffens]

On 01/30/2013 04:35 PM, john at meissen.org wrote:
> This seems to indicate that it should be possible....
>
> The Canon PIXMA Linux blog, for all Canon PIXMA all-in-ones
>   http://mp610.blogspot.com/
> specifically,
>    http://mp610.blogspot.com/2008/10/canon-pixma-scanners-are-now-network.html
>
> It's pretty old, though, so YMMV

Thanks. I'll put some time into making the printer part work, later.

Meanwhile, I didn't pay close enough attention to what xsane was telling 
me earlier. I'm used to getting a message from xsane on my Ubuntu 10.04 
machine telling me it couldn't find a scanner when I'd for gotten to 
turn it on, and/or hadn't done a SCSI rescan after rebooting. The 
version of xsane on that machine is 0.996. When I started up xsane on my 
Ubuntu 12.04 machine I saw a similar small window and assumed it had the 
same problem. However, that little window went dim for a long period of 
seconds -- probably 30 seconds or so -- and then several xsane windows 
opened. What I didn't pay attention to was the one that had a window 
title of, "Standard Options Canon PIXMA MP620:MP620". (Not sure if there 
is anything following the second iteration of MP620 since it's up 
against the right edge of the window's title bar, and the window is of a 
fixed size.)

Anyway, I put something on the scanner and xsane scanned it.

The version of xsane on Ubuntu 12.04 is 0.998. It must include something 
in it that isn't in version 0.996 that allows it to find the network 
scanner.

So, success with scanning, and more to pursue on printing.

Thanks for the link. It showed me that xsane was up to 1.20 back in 
2009, even though Ubuntu is still only at 0.998 today. (I installed 
xsane on the 12.04 machine this afternoon.)

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Regards,

Dick Steffens