[sane-devel] Canon ImageClass MF644Cdw

[Kip Shaffer]

Scanning Results!  I updated to today's version: 1.0.28+git20190913-bionic0

Using Simple Scan I was able to scan at 75, 150, 300, 600, 1200, and 2400
dpi in both Text and Photo modes.  Perfect!

When scanning from the document feeder, it scans front and back, one sheet
or many, but after the job is done there is a pause, and then it says
"Error communicating with scanner".

Also, this has all been through USB.  I tried to connect with the network
and scanimage -L cannot find it.  I added the address to pixma.conf
(neither line helped):
bjnp://MF640_192.168.1.97
bjnp://192.168.1.97

TL:DR - the sane-pixma backend is functional for the Canon ImageClass
MF644Cdw when connected via USB, with only a slight hiccup after scanning
from the sheet feeder.  I was not able to scan over the network.



On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 7:52 PM Kip Shaffer <kip at shafferhouse.org> wrote:

> Thank you Rolf, Olaf & Steve!
>
> When I got home I built Sane from
> https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends.git
>
> The build went successfully after a bit:
> $ ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
> --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var -- BACKENDS="pixma test"
> $ make
> $ sudo make install
> $ sudo scanimage -V
> scanimage (sane-backends) 1.0.28-361-g1e2f64dc; backend version 1.0.28
>
> $ sudo scanimage -L
> No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
> check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the.......
>
> $ sudo sane-find-scanner
> found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x27fe
> [MF642C/643C/644C]) at libusb:002:005
>
> /etc/sane.d/pixma.conf is completely commented out for now.
>
> So find-scanner *could* see the scanner and identify the driver, but
> scanimage -L could not find it.
>
>
>
> Then I tried to use Rolf's PPA since I am running Ubuntu 18.04 (but I have
> to admit I am less familiar with how to use do this)...
> $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rolfbensch/sane-git
> $ sudo apt-get update
>
> This next command took me a while to figure out.  It is probably obvious
> to everyone else, but not to me.
> $ sudo apt install libsane-common
>
> $ sudo scanimage -L
> device `pixma:04A927FE_f4a997c93d62' is a CANON Canon i-SENSYS MF640
> Series multi-function peripheral
>
> Success!
> Thank you so much!  I will start testing the various resolutions and post
> my results.
>
> -Kip
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 3:20 PM Rolf Bensch <rolf at bensch-online.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi Kip,
>>
>> As Olaf mentioned before, your scanner is implemented in stable SANE
>> version 1.0.28 (http://www.sane-project.org/sane-backends.html#S-PIXMA),
>> but not tested yet.
>>
>> If you're using Ubuntu or an Ubuntu clone, you can use my ppa to update
>> SANE: https://launchpad.net/~rolfbensch/+archive/ubuntu/sane-git .
>>
>> If you have another Linux OS, please install SANE as described in
>> INSTALL.linux (http://www.sane-project.org/docs.html).
>>
>> If your scanner can be found by SANE, please test scanning all dpi
>> resolutions and the document feeder with single/multiple pages, single side
>> and duplex. Maybe you want to test WiFi support.
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Rolf
>>
>> Am 12.09.19 um 08:52 schrieb Olaf Meeuwissen:
>> > Hi Steve, Kip, Rolf, list,
>> >
>> > Steve McNeil writes:
>> >
>> >> Hi Kip,
>> >>
>> >> If you can build from source, I think I can help you.
>> >>
>> >> I think I can modify the source files for you to test with.
>> > You shouldn't have to modify anything in sane-backends-1.0.28.
>> >
>> > @Rolf> What kind of testing would you like to be done?
>> >
>> >> Thank you,
>> >> Steve
>> >>
>> >> On 9/5/19 4:00 AM, sane-devel-request at alioth-lists.debian.net wrote:
>> >>> Greetings!  Would it be possible to add a Canon ImageClass MF644Cdw
>> to the
>> >>> Canon Pixma driver?
>> >>>
>> >>> Here is the info from sane-find-scanner:
>> >>>
>> >>> found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x27fe
>> >>> [MF642C/643C/644C]) at libusb:002:003
>> >>>
>> >>> I am happy to run any testing you desire!
>> >>>
>> >>> -Kip
>> > Hope this helps,
>> > --
>> > Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2            FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27
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