[sane-devel] Canon PIXMA E510 -- SOLVED

[Rolf Bensch]

Hi Bernhard,

I just updated the doc files.

Many thanks for your help.

Cheers,
Rolf


Am 22.10.18 um 23:14 schrieb berni.altv at gmx.de:
> Hi Rolf,
> 
> Thanks for your reply. The Canon PIXMA E510 works with SANE 1.0.24.
> I tried colour, gray, lineart with combinations: 75, 150, 300, 600 1200
> If more testing is needed, please let me know. I'd be happy to help.
> 
> For some reason the scanner was not set up on my system (not configured in the 
> YaST2 scanner dialogue) - probably forgot to save / finish propperly when I set 
> it up initially.
> 
> Thanks again! another happy user.
> 
> Bernhard
> 
> 
> On 2018 M10 19, Fri 19:58:45 CEST you wrote:
>> Hi Bernhard,
>>
>> What version of SANE are you using? You need at least version 1.0.24.
>>
>> Please start a test scan on the console with: $ scanimage > pixma.pnm
>>
>> or, if you see errors with: $ SANE_DEBUG_PIXMA=4 scanimage > pixma.pnm
>>
>> You scanner is implemented in the PIXMA backend. So /etc/canon.conf has
>> no effect to your scanner.
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Cheers, Rolf
>>
>> Am 16.10.18 um 16:52 schrieb berni.altv at gmx.de:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> I try to get the Canon E510 up and running. On the Homepage it is
>>> listed under untestetd / tester needed. Therefore I didn't expect it
>>> to work straight away.
>>>
>>> Therefore I took the trouble to look into it a bit, but am not sure
>>> how to continue now.
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> I can find the scanner via lsusb: "Bus 001 Device 006: ID 04a9:1761
>>> Canon, Inc."
>>>
>>> It is also recognized with sane-find-scanner: "found USB scanner
>>> (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x1761 [E510 series]) at
>>> libusb:001:006"and
>>>
>>> "# Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be
>>> supported by  # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage."
>>>
>>> But neither scanimage -L nor skanlite show the scanner. And I am not
>>> sure how to continue from here. Simply adding the VID & PID in
>>> /etc/canon.conf on my system and try again? Or am I missing another step?
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> Bernhard
> 
> 
>