[sane-devel] Canon Pixma MX700 Sane backend

[Nicolas]

Recent PIXMA all-in-ones, released by Canon, appear to be designed with
a common USB communication protocol, at least for the scanner part. 

PIXMA MX850 is most probably also using the same protocol ... but one
can be sure only after giving a try ... 

Anyway, if MX850 runs a new communication protocol, the high level
language of those all-in-ones make pixma backend adaptations easy,
simply with a bunch of Windows Snoops. 

If MX850 uses same generation 3 protocol as MP610, the scanner part
should work out of the box simply after adding in the backend, the USB
PID (04A9:172C), and declaring the device. This should handle at least
flatbed and ADF scans. 

The new part will be the Duplex ADF, but should be simple to tweak with
a set Windows Snoops ...


Le mardi 18 mars 2008 à 17:22 +0900, Gernot Hassenpflug a écrit :
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 3:21 AM, Nicolas <nicolas.martin at freesurf.fr> wrote:
> > FYI, the Canon PIXMA MX700 (all-in-one) is now supported by the pixma
> >  backend, for both flatbed and ADF scanning.
> >
> >  Thanks to Mike, owner of a PIXMA MX700, who contacted me and provided
> >  the USB Snoops with the Windows driver, and then tested the changes
> >  added to the pixma backend.
> >
> >  Also enabled the 2 models PIXMA MX300 and MX310, as there's strong
> >  chance they use the same protocol.
> >
> >  Upload to CVS done today, please report any issue.
> 
> Dear Nicolas,
> 
> I am considering obtaining a Canon PIXMA MX-850, which has an engine
> identical to the MP610 (and therefore the printer engine is also the
> same as that of the iP4500) plus fax capability. I suspect therefore
> that support for scanning will be easy to add in the current code
> (definitions only). Do you have anybody reporting yet on the MX-850?
> 
> Regards, Gernot
> PS this will allow me to replace the MP-710 and iP4500.