I am trying to get Canon MP250 printer and scanner working in OpenSUSE 11.3 and so far I’ve had limited success. Both components work up to a point, but aren’t fully operational.
First of all, I installed the drivers from Canon website for both parts of the multifunctional device. Here’s the report on the versions (it’s localised, but it shouldn’t be hard to understand 
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The printer works for the most part. But it fails to set images to greyscale when I request the driver to. There are some guides about that for Ubuntu, but none for openSUSE that I could find. Also, what does the setting “Amount of Extension” in the printer options do?
It would also be nice if I could set the printing quality as well. Right now it seems to print everything with the default quality setting, but personally I like using lower print quality since that saves ink and makes it a little faster.
The scanner, however, is hardly usable at all. If I try to use Canon’s ScanGear MP to scan, I can hear that it operates the scanner, but the program itself freezes and after a while gives me the “Cannot communicate with scanner” error. On certain settings I can also hear that the scanner itself doesn’t complete the scan (the indicator on it also reports an operation in progress, but it never gets completed).
If I try to use Acquire images, the native KDE scanner application, I can get it to scan, but only on very specific settings: it must scan it in colour and the resolution must be equal to or over 300 dpi. If I try anything else, the resulting image file is completely blank or I get an “Error during device I/O”. And, of course, it can’t save PDF files.
Any suggestions about this would be appreciated.
