Hi
Has anyone had luck getting the scanner to work with 11.1? I am getting hung up on installing the CVS (1.1.x) version of sane-backends which is said to support this scanner. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
I haven’t tried out the scanner at all, but the printer works perfectly for me, I needed to do 3 things:
- Install the MP610 driver RPMs from the Canon Europe site (there are 2)
- Configure the Printer via CUPs: https://127.0.0.1:631
- Set the paper source to cartridge (in CUPs still).
I’ll try to get around to playing with the scanner part in the next day or so if you don’t get it worked out.
Hi jpa100;
welcome to the OpenSuse forums;
tell us what you have done so far; (and have you got the MP620 working as a printer?)
Yes, I do have the printer working as a network printer using cups already, and attempted to pull/build (.configure, make, make install) the sane-backends 1.1 CVS package which is said to support the MP620, but I am having no luck with getting the scanner detected (as USB). I am thinking it is an install location issue with the sane package but I am not completely sure.
Canon offer a package to run the scanner; the printer drivers that Canon offer for the MP610 run the MP620 so the scanner driver should work too;
it seems a simple install of 1) their common package for scanner and then 2) the specific driver for the MP610
they offer a very good illustrated guide on howto install;
if you go here
the first thing is to click on the rpm and then select
guidemp610series-sd-1.10-1.tar.tar
If you choose to do that, I can give advice on needed on how to set up the guide: it should be very helpful
let us know what you think
I know I had trouble with the Canon supplied driver for my MP240 for scanning. It wouldn’t install because of a compatibility issue with libusb. Worked in Ubuntu. I’m trying to build sane-backend from cvs since it may have support. the sane way should provide better functionality anyway. I’ll try and give an update when I make some progress. I’d also recommend getting on the mailing list for the sane project and posting to them. That’s what I usually try and do with similar issues (ie Synce and libmtp).
After building from CVS i was able to detect my MP240 which is listed as needing testing. There’s some permissions issues with regular user but I am able to scan an image as root. Have you tried emailing the dev list? what’s the output for
scanimage -l
scanimage -v
scanimage -T
I got the printer working using:
I downloaded the Canon PIXMA 630 3.0 drivers and got it working under OpenSUSE 11.1 across the network, after configuring it on my wireless network using the Windows installer (under VMware).
RPM Linux Printer & Scanner Drivers
I also installed- but don’t know if it was necessary or not:
cups-1.3.9 (openSUSE repositories)
cups-bjnp (sourceforge: cups-bjnp | Get cups-bjnp at SourceForge.net)
I read information from the following sites (some are Ubuntu specific or somewhat out-of-date)
Computers and Airplanes: How to use the Canon PIXMA MP620 with Kubuntu 8.10
Luca Gibelli » Canon PIXMA MP620 Linux printing and scanning via wireless network on Ubuntu
The Canon PIXMA Linux blog, for all Canon PIXMA all-in-ones: Canon PIXMA scanners now network ready on Linux !
** I did not (re)compile cups. I used the version in the current repositories. I did have to compile the cups-bjnp driver.
I got the scanning working using:
The updated sane-backends sane-backends-1.0.20 using a user-prepared RPM, then following the steps here to use sane-pixma with the saned network driver.
http://en.opensuse.org/Scanning_with_saned
I did have to create a /etc/hosts entry because I’m not currently running an internal DNS server.
well done; thanks for the details;
do you want to make an entry too on the hardware list?
it would be a valuable contribution
Done.
See:
Don’t have time to add the scanning setup step-by-step. Please contribute if you are able.
great work; many thanks; it will be much appreciated