[sane-devel] Device color and gray buttons don't scan

Louis Lagendijk louis at fazant.net
Fri Oct 10 17:27:03 UTC 2014


On Fri, 2014-10-10 at 00:40 -0700, Nicholas Alipaz wrote:
> I have xsane open and pushing the hardware color scan button while in 
> Scan mode Button-controlled scan does not scan the document.  Any ideas why.
> 
> Linux Mint 17 with Canon Pixma MP610
First a question:
what version of Sane is installed (scanimage -V from the command line
will tel you). It should at be at least 1.0.24 I think.

Second: do you have the option "button controlled scan" in the standard
option menu ticked?

Button controlled scanning does not give you much in Xsane. Instead of
scanning immediately, it will delay the scan 'till the button is pushed
(the color or B&W, I forgot which one, try it, the other button will
cancel the scan).
I you want real button controlled scanning, you will have to look into
scanbd, but that will some manual configuration....

kind regards, Louis




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