<div dir="ltr">Thx for the help. I re-installed the drivers as you suggested, but this did not help. However, my (dumb) mistake with respect to "Printing on stdin" was that I was selecting "COPY" instead of "SAVE" in Xsane window. All is well now.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 10:13 PM Jörn-Ingo Weigert <<a href="mailto:jiweigert@gmail.com">jiweigert@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">I kindly ask you to answer to the sane-devel list, instead of me.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Rolf Bensch is on the list too and can you help on your issue better than me.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But removing a printer as you mentioned doesn't mean, not being able to scan. Those are different things. Your problems rely somewhere else. For example the place where sane-backends are stored.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I would simply deinstall any vendor related driver packages and install from the vendor the ones designed for Ubuntu 18.04 and follow their install instructions.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I hope I could give you some hints.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Ingo Weigert</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Lou DeGenaro <<a href="mailto:lou.degenaro@gmail.com" target="_blank">lou.degenaro@gmail.com</a>> schrieb am Fr., 24. Jan. 2020, 03:37:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I'm on shaky ground here and don't understand all the moving parts. I'm using Xsane and CUPS, and the all-in-one is wireless.</div><div><br></div><div>I found that I had 3 printers defined , so I removed 2 of them and and left with:</div><div><br></div><div>root@HAL9000:/etc/default# lpstat -p -d<br>printer MFCJ6945DW is idle. enabled since Thu 23 Jan 2020 09:11:38 PM EST<br>system default destination: MFCJ6945DW</div><div><br></div><div>When I scan now, I no longer get the above error. I get a printed copy with a pop-up window message "Printing on stdin". What's wanted is a file on disk.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 9:23 PM Jörn-Ingo Weigert <<a href="mailto:jiweigert@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">jiweigert@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Hi it would be nice when you provide:<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The Frontend-Programm (XSane, simplescan, etc) you used, which produced this error.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Provide the version of sane-backends you currently using.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">afaik, Ubuntu 18.04 delivers a 1.0.27 experimental version.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If you use your Scanner on a USB3 port, please try to use a USB2 port first, as their are still known issues with USB3.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Kind regards,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Ingo Weigert</div><div dir="auto">Try to use a more recent version from Rolf Bensch, he provide a repository on launchpad for Ubuntu users.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Kind regards,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Lou DeGenaro <<a href="mailto:lou.degenaro@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">lou.degenaro@gmail.com</a>> schrieb am Fr., 24. Jan. 2020, 03:03:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Just upgraded from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04. Have networked Brother J6945 all-in-one that was working perfectly on 16.04. At 18.04 I can print, but get the subject message when I try to scan. Please advise.<br></div>
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