[sane-devel] Canon Support for Scanning -- Not!

Michael Shigorin mike at altlinux.org
Tue Apr 7 16:17:09 UTC 2015


On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 09:38:56AM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote:
> Thank you for contacting Canon product support.
> Scanning is not supported using Linux. 
> 
> Sincerely,
> Technical Support Representative

Yup, they do printer drivers but don't seem to be involved in
SANE backends at all... which ends up in "half-supported" state
for multifunction devices, *officially* (albeit YMMV).

Wish it would change (e.g. following hp's approach).

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