Document Scanners that work with F9

[Todd Denniston]

Sam Varshavchik wrote, On 11/05/2008 06:35 PM:
> I, personally, use the Cannon MF-4270. I had to hack some bugs out of 
> sane's pixma driver, but once I did that, it worked fine. The fixes went 
> upstream, they should be in the next version of sane, so until then 
> you'll have to pull them out of CVS and temporarily build your own driver.
> 
> The MF-4270 is really a multifunction scanner/copier/printer/fax 
> machine. AFAIK, there is no support for the printer part of it, in CUPS, 
> but I don't need the printer+fax functionality. It works fine for me as 
> a scanner+copier. Supports both the flatbed and the document feeder, for 
> scanning.
> 

The actual printer _device_ driver for CUPS is often gutenprint[1].
I have seen a far amount of traffic on the gutenprint list[2] where some folks 
are trying to support some of the cannon equipment.  And as you don't seem to 
be adverse to working out of a dev repository, perhaps you might want to take 
a look and see if your multifunction device is already supported or if you 
could give them the few needed pointers to get it supported.


[1] http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/

[2] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gimp-print-devel

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Todd Denniston
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane)
Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter