[sane-devel] I'd like to scan via Canon iSensys MF746Cx & can test things for you

[Thierry Huchard]

Le 2021-03-26 21:11, Swen Dietrich via sane-devel a écrit :
> Hi all,
> 
> 
>> That device has some problems as a printer with the supplied driver
>> under Linux
> 
> tbh for me the device worked wonderfully out of the box.
> 
> Printing works fine and all the settings are also auto detected and 
> work
> as far as I can tell (e. g. duplex printing, scaling, colour, ....)
> Both flatbed and adf scanning worked until recently.
> 
> It was all fine and dandy until some idiot (me) uninstalled the wrong
> debian package and now scannign no longer works.
> Simple-scan said it can't connect to the device.
> scanimage reports this:
> 
>> > sudo scanimage -L
>> device `escl:http://127.0.0.1:60000' is a ESCL CNMF745C/746C (USB) 
>> flatbed scanner
>> 
>> > sudo scanimage > /tmp/output
>> Output format is not set, using pnm as a default.
>> scanimage: open of device escl:http://127.0.0.1:60000 failed: Out of 
>> memory
> 
> 
> This isn't a support forum but when someone can tell me which debian
> package I need to get this working again this would be truly wonderful.
> 
The problem seems to come from your version of sane, can you give me the 
result of :

# scanimage --version
I think the problem comes from that!

The simple solution would be to install saine-airescan at ipp-usb

Thierry

> I'm running
> 
>> Linux hostname 5.10.0-3-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.13-1 (2021-02-06) 
>> x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> 
> Greetings from germany
> Swen Dietrich
> 
> 
> On 26/03/2021 17.59, Andrea Croci wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I have this same device and initially had some problems with it. I was
>> in contact with Alexander and did some tests for him (not full though, 
>> I
>> got sidetracked after a while).
>> 
>> The device works with both airscan and eSCL (maybe they are even the
>> same thing, although they are listed as two devices by scanimage -L).
>> The only problem is that they always get like a different address or
>> something and they are not always addressed properly by scanimage. But
>> it's not a big deal, one only has to play with the names a little bit
>> and it will work.
>> 
>> I now use gscan2pdf because it saves me time with the conversion to 
>> pdf
>> files, especially if I only want to save a selection of the pages and
>> not all of them. There I have the same problem: when I open gscan2pdf
>> after not having used it for a while, it doesn't find the scanner. I
>> have to let it scan for devices again and then it will find it and 
>> work
>> great.
>> 
>> That device has some problems as a printer with the supplied driver
>> under Linux (Canon is terrible at customer service here), but that's a
>> story for the CUPS mailing-list. Swen, if you have problems setting it
>> up as a printer, you may mail me and I'll tell you how I got it (after
>> days of trying).
>> 
>> Regards.
>> 
>> On 26.03.21 17:40, Ralph Little wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> On 2021-03-26 8:24 a.m., Swen Dietrich via sane-devel wrote:
>>>> Hello SANE Developers,
>>>> 
>>>> the list of backends said "Testers needed!" for my printer.
>>>> I'm owner of a Canon iSensys MF746Cx.
>>>> 
>>>> How can I help with driver development for this printer?
>>> Usually, if the appropriate backend picks it up, testing merely 
>>> involves
>>> trying all of the available options.
>>> Said support might be wrong (flatbed scan area for example) so we 
>>> would
>>> correct those things.
>>>> The device was not connected to the internet yet and thus the
>>>> factory-drivers are still installed on the printer.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Bus 003 Device 048: ID 04a9:27fa Canon, Inc. MF745C/746C
>>>>> Device Descriptor:
>>>>>    bLength                18
>>>>>    bDescriptorType         1
>>>>>    bcdUSB               2.10
>>>>>    bDeviceClass            0
>>>>>    bDeviceSubClass         0
>>>>>    bDeviceProtocol         0
>>>>>    bMaxPacketSize0        64
>>>>>    idVendor           0x04a9 Canon, Inc.
>>>>>    idProduct          0x27fa
>>>>>    bcdDevice            0.00
>>>>>    iManufacturer           1 Canon
>>>>>    iProduct                2 MF745C/746C
>>>>>    iSerial                 3 <snip!>
>>>>>    bNumConfigurations      1
>>> This device is not listed at all on our "Supported Devices" page 
>>> (based
>>> on the supplied USB ids) so at this point I guess we don't know what
>>> protocols are supported.
>>> I see from a datasheet that this is a fairly new device, perhaps
>>> released in 2019. Older Canon devices used MFNP and BJNP protocols.
>>> However, IIRC, modern Canon devices are not and are instead using 
>>> eSCL.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Ralph
>>> 
>>> 
>>