[sane-devel] How can I help with Canon Maxify MB2000 series testing?

Louis Lagendijk louis at fazant.net
Tue Jan 30 14:47:32 UTC 2018


On Mon, 2018-01-29 at 20:35 +0000, Patrick Roncagliolo wrote:
> Yes, --button-controlled=yes has no effect on the scanner: nothing
> happens, scanimage just hangs while the scanner seems to not have
> understood the command, the display do not change page nor shows a
> prompt or some sign that an operation is pending. I do not know if
> this feature should be supported on the MB2350, I never saw such a
> feature even on Windows when configuring/using my scanner. Could you
> tell me where to check if MB2350 supports the button-controlled mode
> or if you know some windows software that can show me how it works so
> that I can understand what should be the expected behaviour on Linux,
> if any?
> 
> Il giorno lun 29 gen 2018 alle ore 20:40 Louis Lagendijk <louis at fazan
> t.net> ha scritto:
> > On Sun, 2018-01-28 at 14:26 +0000, Patrick Roncagliolo wrote:
> > > Hi Rolf,
> > > 
> > > I tested scanimage with different options today. In particular, I
> > > tested all the combinations of connection/resolution/color
> > > available with flatbed mode:
> > > 
> > >  --Connection: usb/net
> > >  --Resolution: 75/150/300/600/1200
> > >  --Color: color/gray/lineart
> > > 
> > > ...for a total of 30 tests. I can confirm that all the
> > > combinations work, I have a folder with all the scans and a
> > > script, so I can replicate the operation while collecting debug
> > > info by setting SANE_DEBUG_PIXMA if necessary, and share all the
> > > results somewhere (eg. Google Drive). 
> > > 
> > > But ADF _do not_ work for me using scanimage or scanadf. Here's a
> > > sample output (SANE_DEBUG_PIXMA=3 PIXMA_EXPERIMENT=1):
> > 
> > This sounds the same as the status on my MB5050. You may also want
> > to test the button support: that probably does not work either.
> > 
> > BR, Louis

Hi Patrick
Buttons can be used in xsane (button controlled scan option in standard
options), but are more relevant with scanbd (scan button daemon). It
did not work with my MB5050 but I scan so seldom that I never got
around fixing the isues I found when I started adaption of the pixma
backend.

BR, Louis
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