[sane-devel] MF8230 still works

[Troels Thomsen]

> BJNP scanning is normally harder than USB (?), so I decided to skip this,
but could be convinced to change my mind, if needed?

That is, I tested everything via network / BJNP!

/Troels


2015-08-23 22:28 GMT+02:00 Troels Thomsen <troels.pil.thomsen at gmail.com>:

>
> Hi ,
>
> Because of the upcoming release, I decided to re-test Rolf’s previous work
> on the MF8200C (mine is a MF8230), and it (still) looks like its working
> fine.
>
> Details are below.
>
> What else should I do?
> BJNP scanning is normally harder than USB (?), so I decided to skip this,
> but could be convinced to change my mind, if needed?
>
> I desired, I can make a USB live stick and run it on my work-labtop which
> has USB2 + USB3 ports. Please specify if any special distro + usb-stack or
> whatever is desired for testing. Otherwise it will probably be newest
> Ubuntu or Mint
>
> /Troels
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Details:
>
> I removed all traces of sane/libsane on computer, and took Rolf’s PPA, and
> installed using Synaptic (apt-get preferred the Ubuntu version ...)
> Version was: libsane_1.0.25-git20150822-trusty0_i386
>
> Tested:
>
> Using xsane + bjnp:
>
> Flatbed:
> 75 + 150 + 600 dpi works fine
> Scanning again and again: works fine
>
> ADF:
> 300 dpi works fine
> Scanning again and again: works fine
>
> scanimage -L
> -scanner is found correctly
>
> sane-find-scanner
> - does not find scanner.
> I think the list is full of trouble-shooting steps for this....
>
>
> One minor hickup though:
> I experienced a paper-jam with the ADF (my own fault, really).
> After that I found no other method than to 'killall xsane' - no problem -
> but the scanner was in 'bad-mode'. Going to local-mode , then
> 'remote-scanner' did not help. Reboot of computer did not either. Reboot of
> scanner did the trick.
> I'm sorry I did not get record the error-message in the terminal (printf
> from pixma driver?).
> It was something like "illegal reply length".
>
> I'm very happy with the performance even if this corner-case exist.
>
> /Troels
>
>
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