[sane-devel] sane-devel Digest, Vol 116, Issue 10

[Peter Lemkin & MCB]

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>    1. SAMSUNG SCX-4521F (m.a.)
>    2. Re: Canon Pixma MX925 (Rolf Bensch)
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> Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2015 09:08:21 -0500
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> Subject: [sane-devel] SAMSUNG SCX-4521F
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> Hello I have an MFP SCX-4521F and I can not get the scanner I have the 
> installation CD LASER MULTIFUNCTION PRINTER ver.1.12 (JC46-00251A) 
> Samsung SCX-4x21Series (windows printer / scan driver Linux printer / 
> scan driver, Macintosh printer / scan driver, SmarThru 4 software, 
> printer settings utility, user's guide). I do not know how to use this 
> CD to install what I need. The printer works but not the scanner. I use 
> as OS, Linux 14.04 LTS KDE Thanks
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> Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2015 21:00:56 +0100
> From: Rolf Bensch <rolf at bensch-online.de>
> To: Peter Lemkin & MCB <crazybear at volny.cz>
> Cc: Sane Development <sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> Subject: Re: [sane-devel] Canon Pixma MX925
> Message-ID: <54D66EF8.7010405 at bensch-online.de>
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> Something strange happens in your distro.
> 
> Please purge *all* SANE packages in synaptic, close synaptic and
> reinstall SANE in synaptic. Not only remove SANE!
> 
> You also should memorise the automatically removed packages for
> reinstallation, if needed.
> 
> If this won't help, you must install SANE's development version from
> source, as described in README.linux: http://www.sane-project.org/docs.html.
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> Cheers,
> Rolf
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> Am 07.02.2015 um 11:35 schrieb Peter Lemkin & MCB:
>> I should have added that before adding the PPA, Xsane opened...searched
>> for scanners....reported it didn't see any scanners. Now, it just
>> collapses in less than a second. Any ideas of how to proceed?!
>>
>> On 06/02/15 19:09, Rolf Bensch wrote:
>>> Please test your scanner with the ppa. The ppa contains SANE's recent
>>> deveolpment version 1.0.25git.
>>>
>>> As you can see here:
>>> http://www.sane-project.org/lists/sane-backends-cvs.html#S-PIXMA, the
>>> scanner status isn't 'complete'.
>>>
>>> Please test all scan options with xsane and report.
>>>
>>> Many thanks for your help.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Rolf


>>>
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>>> Am 04.02.2015 um 18:32 schrieb Troels Thomsen:
>>>>
>>>> Whithout checking the compatability list (Its available ...) I'm
>>>> tempted to say, try Rolf's ppa, see e.g:
>>>>
>>>> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2013-April/031177.html
>>>>
>>>> /Troels
>>>>
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>>>> 2015-02-03 16:59 GMT+01:00 Peter-and-MCB <crazybear at volny.cz
>>>> <mailto:crazybear at volny.cz>>:
>>>>
>>>>     Hello. I have a new Canon Pixma MX925 on two OSs - Ubuntu 12.04 and
>>>>     Ubuntu 14.04. Behavior of the scanner is the same on both.  Some
>>>>     functionality doesn't seem to be available. Some front ends don't work
>>>>     at all [such as XSane], and some that do seem not to work fully. If
>>>>     anyone can help, kindly let me know. Thanks in advance.
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OK, in 14.04 now XSane works VERY well! The combination of this Scanner
[Canon Pixma MX-925] and XSane produced very high quality scans.
However, in 12.04 XSane starts to open then crashes, still. I'll try
purging and re-installing in 12.04 one more time and report.  Peter