[sane-devel] Konica Minolta Magicolor 1690MF

[m. allan noah]

It should not be required to reboot the machine. Just restart your
frontend application. Unless, you had to mess with device permissions
via udev or hal (or whatever). Those sometimes require a reboot.

allan

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Steven Santos <Steven at simplycircus.com> wrote:
> (first version did not include the usb connection...)
>
>
> I am not a coder, but I hope my notes make it easier for others to get this
> working.  Many thanks to
> Reinhold Kainhofer for both developing this backend, and for pointing me in
> the right direction for fixing my problem!
>
> I am now working on getting saned to work, and export this scanner to other
> clients on the network.  I am specifically hoping that it will work with
> older versions of SANE (CentOS 6.2 uses version 1.0.21).  If that works, I
> will add those notes to this, as well as adding notes on getting this model
> working with CUPS for both color and black and white printing.
>
>
>
>
> HOW-TO: SANE and the Konica Minolta Magicolor 1690MF on Ubuntu
>
> Step 1: Ensure that you have at least version 1.0.22 of sane installed
>
> If you don't know what version of sane you are running, run this command
> from a terminal:
>
>> scanuser at sane:~$  scanimage -V
>
>
> You should see something like this as a result:
>
>> scanimage (sane-backends) 1.0.22; backend version 1.0.22
>
>
> (hint: it should already be installed on Ubuntu 11.04 and higher.  If it
> reads 1.0.21, you do not have the magicolor back end, and need to upgrade to
> a newer version of ubuntu).
>
> Step 2: Enable the Magicolor back end
>
> Edit the file /etc/sane.d/dll.conf by running the following command:
>
>> sudo gedit /etc/sane.d/dll.conf
>
>
> Within that file, change the line that reads
>
>> #magicolor
>
>
> to
>
>> magicolor
>
>
> and save the file.  Note: if the magicolor line does not have a hash #, you
> do not need to edit anything.
>
>
> Step 3: Tell the Magicolor back end where to find the network scanner
>
> While sane will try and autodetect the scanner on the network, you will
> likely need to specify the IP address of the scanner.  To do that, open a
> terminal and run the command:
>
>> sudo gedit /etc/sane.d/magicolor.conf
>
>
> After the line that reads
>
>> net autodiscovery
>
>
> you need to add a line with the word "net" and IP address of your Magicolor
> 1690MF scanner.  That line should look like this:
>
>> net 192.168.0.15
>
>
> (make sure to change the address to match that of your scanner)
> Now that you have added the IP address of your scanner, save the file.
>
>
> Step 4: Tell the Magicolor back end where to find the USB scanner
>
> With the 1690MF plugged into your computer via a USB cable, run the command:
>
>
>> sane-find-scanner
>
>
> the output of that command will look something like this:
>
>>   # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the
>>   # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your
>>   # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.
>>
>>   # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure
>> that
>>   # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.
>>
>> found USB scanner (vendor=0x132b [KONICA MINOLTA], product=0x2089 [KONICA
>> MINOLTA magicolor 1690MF scan]) at libusb:001:003
>>   # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be
>> supported by
>>   # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.
>>
>>   # Not checking for parallel port scanners.
>>
>>   # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary
>> ports
>>   # can't be detected by this program.
>
>
> You can ignore everything that starts with a hash tag, but the important
> part is this line:
>
>> found USB scanner (vendor=0x132b [KONICA MINOLTA], product=0x2089 [KONICA
>> MINOLTA magicolor 1690MF scan]) at libusb:001:003
>
>
> We need to add those two values to the Magicolor back end.  to do that, fire
> up gedit as root:
>
>> sudo gedit /etc/sane.d/magicolor.conf
>
>
> Find the line that reads:
>
>> usb
>
>
> and after it  add a line with the word "usb" followed by the vendor number
> and the product number.  That line should look like this:
>
>> usb 0x132b 0x2089
>
>
> After you have added that line, save the file.
>
> Step 5: Reboot the machine
>
>
> Next, reboot the machine (devs, can we get sane to reread the changes
> without restarting the box?  If so, what is the command?)
>
>
> Step 6: Test your new scanner
>
>
> After the reboot, open a terminal window and run the command
>
>> xsane
>
>
> You should now have a working interface to your  Konica Minolta Magicolor
> 1690MF.
>
>
> ---
> Steven Santos
> Director
> Simply Circus, Inc.
> 86 Los Angeles Street
> Newton, MA 02458
>
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> F: 617-934-1870
> E: Steven at SimplyCircus.com
>
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