Re: [sane-devel] Canon MF212w Scanner and SANE

2015-12-06 Thread monkity
Thanks, Olaf, now the scanner is recognized. But I am still unable to get it to scan. I'm getting a new USB cable and will verify it works on Windows before trying what Rolf suggested (which is frankly still outside my skillset). If I can't get the scanner to actually scan soon I will probably r

Re: [sane-devel] Canon MF212w Scanner and SANE

2015-12-04 Thread Rolf Bensch
Hi, Beside all installation issues, please don't forget that this scanner has the status "Untested" (http://www.sane-project.org/sane-backends.html#S-PIXMA). This means that this scanner may *NOT* work until some bug fixing will happen. I'm sorry, but I cannot supply any support for the Pixma ba

Re: [sane-devel] Canon MF212w Scanner and SANE

2015-12-04 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Scott writes: > Olaf, thank you for your continued help. Yes, I am a newbie to this > driver business among many things. > > On 12/03/2015 04:52 AM, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: >> Hi Scott, >> >> monkity writes: >> >>> Hi Olaf, >>> >>> Olaf writes: >>> [...] Have you tried sane-backends-1.0

Re: [sane-devel] Canon MF212w Scanner and SANE

2015-12-03 Thread Scott
Olaf, thank you for your continued help. Yes, I am a newbie to this driver business among many things. On 12/03/2015 04:52 AM, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: Hi Scott, monkity writes: Hi Olaf, Olaf writes: [...] Have you tried sane-backends-1.0.25. That versions claims that support for the MF2

Re: [sane-devel] Canon MF212w Scanner and SANE

2015-12-03 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Hi Scott, monkity writes: > Hi Olaf, > > Olaf writes: > >> [...] >>Have you tried sane-backends-1.0.25. That versions claims that support >>for the MF210 Series was added to the pixma backend. >> >>Seeing that you are using Linux Mint, I *guess* that you get your SANE >>backends via the Ubuntu p

[sane-devel] Canon MF212w Scanner and SANE

2015-11-30 Thread monkity
Hi Olaf, Olaf writes: >Hi Scott, > >Scott writes: > >>* Hello, ** I'm a Linux Mint user and so is my father. We're trying to set up an *>>* all-in-one printer I bought today and have had good luck setting up on *>>* the printer side, but not the scanner side. I hoped SANE would do the *>>*

Re: [sane-devel] Canon MF212w Scanner and SANE

2015-11-30 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Hi Scott, Scott writes: > Hello, > > I'm a Linux Mint user and so is my father. We're trying to set up an > all-in-one printer I bought today and have had good luck setting up on > the printer side, but not the scanner side. I hoped SANE would do the > trick but the MF210 series for Canon is

[sane-devel] Canon MF212w Scanner and SANE

2015-11-29 Thread Scott
Hello, I'm a Linux Mint user and so is my father. We're trying to set up an all-in-one printer I bought today and have had good luck setting up on the printer side, but not the scanner side. I hoped SANE would do the trick but the MF210 series for Canon isn't yet verified as working so SANE