[sane-devel] New scanner Canon MF4770N Multi function

[Ralph Little]

Hi,
Many thanks.
I will try the latest builds tonight.
I am currently runnin on 1.0.23 via Linux Mint (derived from Ubuntu Ringtail).

One other thing which I would like to look into is that if the pixma driver 
misinterprets the ADF paper situation and attempts to perform a scan anyway, it 
gets locked into a loop while conversing with the scanner and getting errors 
which cannot be user terminated with the cancel button. It appears to be asking 
for an ADF scan but the printer is refusing. I will see if I can get to the 
bottom of that.

I will also look into the panel button notifications.

Cheers!
Ralph





>
> From: Rolf Bensch 
>To: littlesincanada ; sane-devel at 
>lists.alioth.debian.org 
>Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 12:59:34 PM
>Subject: Re: [sane-devel] New scanner Canon MF4770N Multi function
> 
>
>Hi Ralph,
>
>Many thanks for your help adding a new scanner to SANE.
>
>It seems that you're using the sources from the stable version. Please
>use the daily git snapshot from here:
>http://www.sane-project.org/snapshots/ or use git as described here:
>http://www.sane-project.org/README.linux. I already fixed the '0x10
>paper in ADF' issue before. Maybe the underrun issue has also been fixed
>before.
>
>Please check SANE version with 'scanimage -V'. This should report:
>scanimage (sane-backends) 1.0.24git; backend version 1.0.24.
>
>For debugging you can activate debug messages on the console with
>'export SANE_DEBUG_PIXMA=4'. If you want to see the USB protocols use
>'export SANE_DEBUG_PIXMA=11' or 'export SANE_DEBUG_PIXMA=21'. Then start
>xsane or scanimage from the console.
>
>Please read the pixma manpage (man sane-pixma) for more infos.
>
>You can send your patch file to the ml or direct to my email address.
>Then I can commit it to git.
>
>Cheers,
>Rolf
>
>
>
>Am 19.09.2013 08:10, schrieb littlesincanada:
>> Hi,
>> OK further to this I have managed to get the ADF working.
>> Can someone who knows about Canon pixma printers give me a little
>> assistance?
>>
>> Firstly, the ADF:
>> In pixma_imageclass.c
>>
>> I had to modify the has_paper() function to:
>>
>> static int
>> has_paper (pixma_t * s)
>> {
>>?  iclass_t *mf = (iclass_t *) s->subdriver;
>>?  return ((mf->current_status[1] == 0) ||
>>? ? ? ? ? ((mf->current_status[1] == 0x10) && (s->cfg->pid ==
>> MF4770_PID)));
>> }
>>
>> The paper in the status byte alternates between 0x10 for "Paper in
>> ADF" and 0x01 for (No paper in ADF). This is quite a bit different to
>> the other printers which are looking for 0 when there is paper. Anyone
>> know why this might be?
>>
>> Secondly, there seems to be a mismatch in the expected image size and
>> that received:
>>
>> [pixma] WARNING:image size mismatches
>> [pixma]? ?  1683840 expected (877 lines) but 1614720 received (841 lines)
>> [pixma] pixma_read_image(): completed (underrun detected)
>>
>> I'm also getting some of these:
>>
>> [pixma] *sane_read* Warning: padding may cause incomplete scan
>> results
>>
>> I'm guessing there is a geometry calculation problem somewhere.
>>
>> The scan received looks fine so it is obviously overcoming whatever
>> difficulty is being detected, however I would like to fix this.
>> Any help with how I might resolve this?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ralph
>>
>>
>>
>>  Original Message 
>> Subject:? ?  New scanner Canon MF4770N Multi function
>> Date:? ?  Mon, 16 Sep 2013 23:11:00 -0700
>> From:? ?  littlesincanada 
>> To:? ? sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>> I got one of these (Canon MF4770N) and managed to get it to pretty much
>> work with the MF4410 driver.
>> I rebuilt the pixma backend and substituted the 4770N pid (04A9-2774)
>> and I can get scanning *mostly* working.
>>
>> 1) Preview/scan in 75/150/300/600 dpi works fine in both colour and b/w.
>> I do rarely get an error on the printer and I have to switch it on and
>> off again. This might be a timing issue I guess.
>> Cancelling scans works OK.
>>
>> 2) xsane will not print using the ADF. xsane generates an error and
>> reckons that there is nothing in the ADF.
>>
>> So, looking for a bit of advice. What can I do to track this down? In
>> particular, I would like to get the ADF working.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ralph
>>
>>
>>
>>
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[sane-devel] New scanner Canon MF4770N Multi function

[Ralph Little]

Hi Rolf,
If the scanner is stopping scanning on a paper-end detector in the ADF (which I 
suspect it is, although I can't be sure), then it might stop at any arbitrary 
point even in preview mode. I only get the underrun warning when requesting a 
preview from the ADF. It could be as you say and the scanner is designed to 
scan a maximum? of 11" from the ADF.

I will try your change and see what happens, though and I will try the ADF with 
shorter paper to see what happens. I suspect that what sane gets is arbitrarily 
determined by the physical length of the paper.


I did try the buttons on the scanner. When in "remote" mode for computer 
scanning, none of the buttons seem to cause a USB interrupt. They all "double 
beep" which indicates that press is invalid. I'm not sure which buttons would 
be expected to work in this context. 


Here is a good picture of the panel:

http://bimg2.mlstatic.com/impresora-multifuncional-laser-canon-image-class-mf4770n_MLV-F-4579386679_072013.jpg

If you have a chance, could you have a look and let me know which buttons are 
customarily used? There are no Colour/Grey/Scan buttons as such. The OK buttom 
might have served this purpose, but it is inactive in scan mode.

There are only two which might seem to fit this bill on the far right hand 
side: "Scan>PC1" and "Scan>PC2" which I think is intended for network scanning, 
a setup that I have not tried.

I will let you know tonight.

Cheers and thanks again for your help,

Ralph





>
> From: Rolf Bensch 
>To: littlesincanada  
>Cc: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org 
>Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 7:47:02 AM
>Subject: Re: [sane-devel] New scanner Canon MF4770N Multi function
> 
>
>Hi Ralph,
>
>Am 20.09.2013 06:34, schrieb littlesincanada:
>> Hi Rolf,
>> OK, diff included for pixma-imageclass.c to git unstable.
>> 
>> I figured out the issue with the underrun: when the printer is scanning
>> with the ADF for Preview (full area scan), it auto detects the end of
>> paper and terminates the scan earlier than the sane driver is expecting.
>> It sees the end of the paper and knows to stop at that point (nothing
>> left to scan).
>> 
>
>Here the backend expects maximum paper length if you don't request a
>smaller format from scanimage or xsane. The scanner stops scanning when
>the paper went through the document feeder.
>
>> It cannot do this when scanning from the platen since it doesn't know
>> where the end of the page is. Therefore, I don't get the warning when
>> Previewing from the platen.
>> 
>
>Sure, the scanner expects 11.7" paper length, but your scanner supports
>only 11". Please replace the device define line with this one:
>
>DEV ("Canon imageCLASS MF4770n", "MF4770", MF4770_PID, 600, 640, 825,
>PIXMA_CAP_ADF),
>
>This should fix this issue. Please report if this is successful. Then
>I'll commit your patch to git.
>
>If you don't want to scan large documents above 11" on the document
>feeder, I'll patch this later.
>
>> I couldn't really get any response from the buttons. My time with the
>> printer is running out (I have to ship it to my daughter in Uni) so I'm
>> going to have to call it a do at that.
>> 
>
>You can check button support with scanimage. Please follow these items
>for debugging:
>
>(1) Connect your scanner to the usb bus.
>(2) 'export SANE_DEBUG_PIXMA=11' on the console.
>(3) Press any button.
>(4) 'scanimage -A' on the console.
>
>The response from scanimage should contain these lines:
>
>? Buttons:
>? ? --button-update
>? ? ? ? Update button state
>[pixma] INTR T=1.655 len=32
>[pixma]? :00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00? 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>[pixma]? 0010:00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00? 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>[pixma]
>? ? --button-1  [1] [read-only]
>? ? ? ? Button 1
>? ? --button-2  [0] [read-only]
>? ? ? ? Button 2
>? ? --original  [0] [read-only]
>? ? ? ? Type of original to scan
>? ? --target  [1] [read-only]
>? ? ? ? Target operation type
>? ? --scan-resolution  [0] [read-only]
>? ? ? ? Scan resolution
>
>The [pixma] lines are from my scanner which is different from yours.
>
>(5) repeat from (3) for all other buttons.
>
>Please send me the [pixma] responses for all buttons. Then I can create
>a patch for this.
>
>If you won't get [pixma] debug lines SANE doesn't support the buttons
>from your scanner.
>
>Cheers,
>Rolf
>
>
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[sane-devel] New scanner Canon MF4770N Multi function

[Ralph Little]

Hi,
Something else that didn't quite work during last night's testing was loading 
multiple pages into the ADF.
Using xsane, the first scan works fine. 
However, the ADF starts to load the second page towards the end of the first 
scan (fax-style) and appears to be waiting for xsane to request it.
xsane reckons that it is finished but the scanner is not. It ends up in a 
strange situation where the scanner and xsane are out of sync.

While in this state, xsane will not perform a scan because the scanner is busy. 
Everything is fine after the scan is cancelled on the scanner panel.
xsane is not expecting to be doing multiple scans in this setup.
Perhaps the pixma driver can detect this situation and issue a cancel to the 
scanner? 
It could perform the first scan, detect if there is paper still in the scanner 
and if so, send an abort to the scanner.

If I get time, I will play around with this tonight, but my time with the unit 
is running out.
Shame, this is a lot of fun.

Cheers,
Ralph





>
> From: Rolf Bensch 
>To: littlesincanada  
>Cc: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org 
>Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 1:14:14 PM
>Subject: Re: [sane-devel] New scanner Canon MF4770N Multi function
> 
>
>Hi Ralph,
>
>I found a patch for different flatbed (platen) and ADF page length
>handling. I adapted this for your scanner. Your scanner supports 11" for
>flatbed (platen) and 14" for ADF.
>
>Cheers,
>Rolf
>
>
>Am 20.09.2013 16:47, schrieb Rolf Bensch:
>> Hi Ralph,
>>
>> Am 20.09.2013 06:34, schrieb littlesincanada:
>>> Hi Rolf,
>>> OK, diff included for pixma-imageclass.c to git unstable.
>>>
>>> I figured out the issue with the underrun: when the printer is scanning
>>> with the ADF for Preview (full area scan), it auto detects the end of
>>> paper and terminates the scan earlier than the sane driver is expecting.
>>> It sees the end of the paper and knows to stop at that point (nothing
>>> left to scan).
>>>
>> Here the backend expects maximum paper length if you don't request a
>> smaller format from scanimage or xsane. The scanner stops scanning when
>> the paper went through the document feeder.
>>
>>> It cannot do this when scanning from the platen since it doesn't know
>>> where the end of the page is. Therefore, I don't get the warning when
>>> Previewing from the platen.
>>>
>> Sure, the scanner expects 11.7" paper length, but your scanner supports
>> only 11". Please replace the device define line with this one:
>>
>> DEV ("Canon imageCLASS MF4770n", "MF4770", MF4770_PID, 600, 640, 825,
>> PIXMA_CAP_ADF),
>>
>> This should fix this issue. Please report if this is successful. Then
>> I'll commit your patch to git.
>>
>> If you don't want to scan large documents above 11" on the document
>> feeder, I'll patch this later.
>>
>>> I couldn't really get any response from the buttons. My time with the
>>> printer is running out (I have to ship it to my daughter in Uni) so I'm
>>> going to have to call it a do at that.
>>>
>> You can check button support with scanimage. Please follow these items
>> for debugging:
>>
>> (1) Connect your scanner to the usb bus.
>> (2) 'export SANE_DEBUG_PIXMA=11' on the console.
>> (3) Press any button.
>> (4) 'scanimage -A' on the console.
>>
>> The response from scanimage should contain these lines:
>>
>>?  Buttons:
>>? ?  --button-update
>>? ? ? ?  Update button state
>> [pixma] INTR T=1.655 len=32
>> [pixma]? :00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00? 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>> [pixma]? 0010:00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00? 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>> [pixma]
>>? ?  --button-1  [1] [read-only]
>>? ? ? ?  Button 1
>>? ?  --button-2  [0] [read-only]
>>? ? ? ?  Button 2
>>? ?  --original  [0] [read-only]
>>? ? ? ?  Type of original to scan
>>? ?  --target  [1] [read-only]
>>? ? ? ?  Target operation type
>>? ?  --scan-resolution  [0] [read-only]
>>? ? ? ?  Scan resolution
>>
>> The [pixma] lines are from my scanner which is different from yours.
>>
>> (5) repeat from (3) for all other buttons.
>>
>> Please send me the [pixma] responses for all buttons. Then I can create
>> a patch for this.
>>
>> If you won't get [pixma] debug lines SANE doesn't support the buttons
>> from your scanner.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Rolf
>
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[sane-devel] New scanner Canon MF4770N Multi function

[Ralph Little]

Hi,
Yes indeed if I get some time with it in the future I will work to resolve this.
I wonder how many of the other imageClass printers in this range have the same 
issue with their ADFs or if this is something that is new to this family of 
scanners.

Cheers,
Ralph





>
> From: Rolf Bensch 
>To: littlesincanada  
>Cc: Sane Development  
>Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 12:31:44 PM
>Subject: Re: [sane-devel] New scanner Canon MF4770N Multi function
> 
>
>Hi Ralph,
>
>I just committed your patch to git. I also edited some doc files and set
>the scanner to "status :good" due to buggy ADF.
>
>Maybe you'll have access to the scanner again in future. Then we can fix
>buggy ADF.
>
>Many thanks for your help.
>
>Cheers,
>Rolf
>
>
>Am 21.09.2013 17:24, schrieb littlesincanada:
>> Hi,
>> Final patch included.
>> 
>> The ADF "dirty fix" did the job for me: after the first scan subsequent
>> pages are ejected from the ADF.
>> I have not included it in the patch file though.
>> 
>> I wish I had the time to have a go at this, but I only have the scanner
>> today and lots of other stuff to do :(
>> 
>> Anyway, apart from all that, it's great! Fully functional scanning and
>> no errors.
>> Contributing is cool.
>> 
>> BTW: udev rule (I don't know if this is supplied by sane or the distro,
>> but here it is anyway):
>> 
>> # Canon imageCLASS MF4770N
>> ATTRS{idVendor}=="04a9", ATTRS{idProduct}=="2774",
>> ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"
>> 
>> Until next time!
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Ralph
>> 
>> 
>> On 21/09/13 00:50, Rolf Bensch wrote:
>>> Hi Ralph,
>>>
>>> Am 21.09.2013 07:39, schrieb littlesincanada:
 Hi Rolf,
 Enclosed is the output file for the ADF multi page issue.
 As before, I load up 2 pages into the ADF.
 On first scan with xsane, the first page is pulled through and scanned
 normally.
 As the first page is finishing, the ADF starts to draw through the
 second page (like a fax machine typically does), then waits with it
 after the first page is finished.
 The trace in the enclosed file acknowledges that the ADF still has some
 pages in it.
 The scanner Processing/Data light is flashing so the scanner thinks that
 a job is still in progress.

 When I try to scan the next sheet, the trace shows that xsane thinks the
 scanner is busy and cannot proceed.

>>> Maybe attached dirty patch will help for this issue.
>>>
>>> The problem is that the backend doesn't recognize that a 2nd page starts
>>> scanning. Therefore it starts with the start session command. Normally a
>>> scan is closed with the abort session command, but not a multi page scan
>>> session. It is waiting for the next page and sends the abort session
>>> command after the last page has been scanned.
>>>
>>> But maybe it is too complicated and we should follow KISS: A complete
>>> scan session for each single page. We can do this here because we don't
>>> use gama tables and other calibration for the scanner. But maybe this
>>> will cause other problems with the frontend (batch scan).
>>>
>>> The main control variables are in pixma.c in pixma_sane_t: idle and
>>> page_cout.
>>>
 =

 BTW, the flatbed will actually do the full? 11.7" so please put the
 flatbed scan height back to 877:

 In iclass_check_param():
? ? ? sp->h = MIN (sp->h, 877 * sp->xdpi / 75);

 The ADF will indeed scan legal up to 14" in length.
 Apart from that everything looks cool.

>>> OK
>>>
 It is a shame that we have dimension information hidden in the
 iclass_check_param() function.
 We could do with adding an extra entry in pixma_config_t for separate
 ADF/flatbed geometry.

>>> Indeed. This was a quick paste and copy patch. I'll patch this later. I
>>> did this before for e.g. adftpu_min_dpi.
>>>
 On Sunday, I have to say bye-bye to the printer, so from then on, I
 cannot do anything further :(
 There might be some time for me to look at the ADF issue tomorrow
 (Saturday) and test any further patches.

>>> Sorry, I have no time to create any further patches today.
>>>
>>> Maybe you can solve this by yorself. Please send your final patch, so
>>> that I can add this to git.
>>>
>>> Many thanks for your help.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Rolf
>> 
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[sane-devel] Canon MF4770N

[Ralph Little]

Hi Rolf (et al),
I now have an MF4770N of my own.
I will have a go at sorting out the issues relating to the ADF that we 
experienced previously and I will try to get to the bottom of the 
occasional error when scanning.

To recap, the ADF on this scanner (any maybe on others) scans the first 
sheet from the ADF fine, but draws the next sheet ready to scan (like a 
fax). When scanning the next sheet, the printer is already in a ready 
state and doesn't like the sequence sent by sane when it starts to scan 
since it indicates that it is already busy. I have to cancel scanning on 
the scanner before proceeding.

When do you think that the scanner should do in this situation? I can 
think of two possibilities:

1) Perhaps the driver could detect that the scanner is ready with 
another sheet and do something different to scan the next sheet, that is 
already loaded into the ADF.
2) Perhaps if the application is only asking for a single sheet scan, 
the remaining sheets should be cancelled at the end of the first-sheet scan.

What think you?

Cheers,
Ralph

[sane-devel] Canon MF4770N network

[Ralph Little]

Hi Gernot,
Thanks for that.
Yes this was something that tripped me up early on with my investigations with 
the unit.
Certainly when USB scanning, you have to put the scanner in "Remote Computer" 
mode otherwise it reports itself as busy. USB scanning now works fine.

I've tried a number of different operational modes to no avail.
I do find that a lot of multi-function printer/scanners like this have a 
confusing array of buttons and operational methods to achieve what is largely 
the same thing.
This scanner will do both push and pull scanning. I'm really only interested in 
the pull variant which is what I think most people would do in the home.

I will boot up my Windows XP and see if I can get network scanning working 
under that using Canon's software.

That way I can be sure that the procedure is correct and I can get a wireshark 
trace to see what is going on under the covers.

Cheers,
Ralph



>
> From: Gernot Hassenpflug 
>To: littlesincanada  
>Cc: sane-devel  
>Sent: Monday, April 7, 2014 10:00:48 PM
>Subject: Re: [sane-devel] Canon MF4770N network
> 
>
>Hi,
>Not sure if it is relevant, but here is an Ubuntu thread, indicating
>that the scan button the device needs to be pressed before it can
>scan:
>http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2156681
>Regards,
>Gernot
>
>
>On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 1:22 PM, littlesincanada
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Further to my previous post, I should point out that:
>>
>> 1) Ping works and the printer answers back.
>> 2) Printing works fine.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ralph
>>
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Re: [sane-devel] Cannon 9000f mark II

[Ralph Little]

Hi,You could also try out Rolf Bensch's PPA which I use:
https://launchpad.net/~rolfbensch/+archive/ubuntu/sane-git

Cheers,Ralph

 Subject: Re: [sane-devel] Cannon 9000f mark II
 To: "Zeb C." 
 Cc: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org
 Date: Thursday, January 22, 2015, 6:24 PM
 
 
 Zeb C. writes:
 
 > Thanks Olaf
 >
 > I ran the command and my username was in the scanner
 group all
 > along. still no devices found.
 
 Sorry, I should have read the forum post more closely.
 
 FYI, your scanner was first supported in
 sane-backends-1.0.24.? That
 means you need libsane-1.0.24.? This version is
 available in utopic
 (Ubuntu 14.10).? Seeing that you are using trusty
 (Ubuntu 14.04), you
 have libsane-1.0.23 which does *not* support your scanner.
 
 You have two options:
  - upgrade to utopic (Ubuntu 14.10)
  - grab only libsane-1.0.24 and libsane-common from utopic
 (and if you
 ???have it installed maybe also sane-utils
 and/or libsane-extras) and
 ???install that
 
 Furthermore, if you haven't done so already, remove that
 99-local.rules
 in /etc/udev/rules.d/.? It is very broken, causes the
 error on boot that
 you mentioned and is not needed with libsane-1.0.24.
 
 Hope this helps,
 -- 
 Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2? ? ? ?
 ???FLOSS Engineer -- AVASYS CORPORATION
 FSF Associate Member #1962? ? ? ? ?
 ? ???Help support software freedom
 ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
 ???http://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=1962
 

   
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[sane-devel] BJNP protocol

[Ralph Little]

Hi,Do any of the SANE Pixma devs (I guess primarily Rolf) have any 
documentation of the BJNP protocol so far as scanning is concerned?If so, could 
I get a hold of a copy?I guess I could figure it out with a code read but if 
someone had something written down, then that would save me a lot of work.
Cheers,Ralph

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Re: [sane-devel] Broken ADF-support in pixma-backend: devs needed

[Ralph Little]

Hi,I have also had problems with my Canon MF4770N and Rolf has been kind enough 
to assist in the past although it has become increasingly apparent that he is 
really busy with other things.
It still doesn't work and it is something that I would like to rectify.
I do have the skills to get to the bottom of it, but I also don't have much 
time to devote to it but it is on my TODO list sort out.For my scanner, some of 
the setting combinations don't work very well or sometimes put the machine in a 
hardware failure state resulting in my having to power cycle it, most likely 
the result of a timing issue or an illegal combination of options. So there is 
clearly much work to be done. :(
Having gained experience with that I might be able to help with other models. I 
have a feeling that once one is fixed, a number of other models will be pretty 
much the same. Companies like Canon tend to output lots of models that are 
pretty much the same inside and it wouldn't surprise me to discover that 
solving the problem with one would solve the problem with many.
When ADF scanning fails on my multi function then I suspect that sane and the 
scanner are out-of-sync, a situation which is difficult to recover from without 
some kind of reset of the scanner itself. Sane thinks that the scanner has 
reported an error and aborts whereas the scanner is waiting for instructions to 
continue the scan from sane. 

I will try to put some time aside to deal with this over the next few days but 
I cannot give any guarantees however.
Cheers,Ralph Little
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Re: [sane-devel] Epson WorkForce DS-1630

[Ralph Little]

Hi,Don't know about SANE but the US Epson website mentions that they have a 
Linux scanner driver for it (just in case if you are not aware of it).
I don't have any experience with it and they explicitly state that they do not 
provide support for it, which seems like a bit of a cop-out.So no guarantees of 
course. :(

https://epson.com/faq/SPT_B11B206201~faq-205960

..and search for the model.
Cheers,Ralph

  From: Isabelle Barbe 
 To: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org 
 Sent: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 9:42 AM
 Subject: [sane-devel] Epson WorkForce DS-1630
   
Good afternoon !

Before buying this mentionned scanner I need to know if Libsane 
recognise it. I don't see any mention about it at 
http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-EPSON.

All informations about this scanner at :

(US) : 
https://epson.com/For-Work/Scanners/Desktop-Document/Epson-DS-1630-Flatbed-Color-Document-Scanner/p/B11B239201
 

(France) : 
https://www.epson.fr/products/scanners/business-scanners/workforce-ds-1630#drivers
 


Thank you in advance for your help !

Have a nice day !

Regards,
Sab

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Re: [sane-devel] [janitorial] Alioth → GitLab Migration Update

[Ralph Little]

Hi,Thanks for the update Olaf. 
I'm a lurker rather than a developer so I appreciate the information.

Cheers,Ralph

  From: Olaf Meeuwissen 
 To: Sane Development  
 Sent: Friday, February 9, 2018 4:00 AM
 Subject: [sane-devel] [janitorial] Alioth → GitLab Migration Update
   
Hi all,

I have started work on some of the issues on the migration milestone I
created on GitLab[1].  Of course you can follow what's going on on the
milestone directly (or the board[2]) but I figured I'd post an update.

  [1]: https://gitlab.com/sane-project/ops/milestones/1
  [2]: 
https://gitlab.com/sane-project/ops/boards?milestone_title=Alioth%20%E2%86%92%20GitLab%20Migration

For starters, both the sane-backends and sane-frontends repositories on
Alioth are now *read-only* and will no longer receive any updates.  The
developers should push to the corresponding repositories at GitLab.com
from now on.

Pushes to the Alioth repositories will now fail with an error message
telling you how to switch your local checkout.

# The website project will follow once we have a site set up on the
# GitLab infra-structure.  In the mean time, all these changes have
# been reflected in the site's pages.

All SANE project members on Alioth have received invitations to join the
project on GitLab.com and a bit shy of half have already accepted.  The
rest will get another nudge soon.  Please note that only project members
can push to GitLab.com.

Release artifacts, i.e. source tarballs, have been attached to their
corresponding release tags for both backends[3] and frontends[4].
Various checksums have been added as well as some release notes.

  [3]: https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/tags?search=RELEASE
  [4]: https://gitlab.com/sane-project/frontends/tags?search=RELEASE

In the mean time, I'm also looking at the possibility of migrating the
Tracker items we have at Alioth[5].  It doesn't look easy, but someone
at GitLab.com (the Director of Strategic Partnerships) has contacted me
with an offer to help.  I'm not holding my breath but any help in this
area is welcome.

  [5]: https://gitlab.com/sane-project/ops/issues/10

If there is anything you think that's missing from the milestone[1] or
find fault with any of the attached release artifacts[3][4], feel free
to submit a new issue[6].  You don't have to be a SANE Project member.
Simply login to GitLab.com[7] and create a new issue[6].

  [6]: https://gitlab.com/users/sign_in
  [7]: https://gitlab.com/sane-project/ops/issues/new

Next up on my list is the website[8].

  [8]: https://gitlab.com/sane-project/ops/issues/7

Hope this helps,
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