[sane-devel] Problem with new Canon iSensys MF746Cx

[Andrea Croci]

Hi Alexander,

thank you for your reply. That did work indeed: the scanner gets
recognised as 'airscan:e0:Canon MF745C/746C'. However the list of
options for that device is very short. For instance there is no
"brightness", which would be very helpful when scanning a page printed
on the backside too. That's what I always have to adjust with the Epson
scanner in order not to see the back printing through.

In addition I just checked in my laptop, which has Ubuntu 20.04
installed instead. That has recognised the scanner automatically with
the "escl" backend. I don't see an "escl.conf" in my desktop with 18.04.
Is this just a matter of sane-version?

Is there any way to activate other functions for the scanner?

Thank you and regards,

Andrea

On 08.09.20 12:30, Alexander Pevzner wrote:
> Hi Andrea,
>
> On 9/8/20 7:20 AM, Andrea Croci wrote:
>> I have just installed a new Canon iSensys MF746Cx on Ubuntu 18.04 and I
>> can't get it to scan. It' connected over the network. I haven't found
>> any driver or software for scanning on Canon's Website, so I was hoping
>> I could do it with sane. I have read on the list of supported devices
>> that the MF741/743 are fully supported by the pixma backend.
>
> The sane-airscan will probably work for you:
>
> https://github.com/alexpevzner/sane-airscan - the project page
> https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/pzz/ - binary
> packages for many distros
>