<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">(first version did not include the usb connection...)<br><br>I am not a coder, but I hope my notes make it easier for others to get this working. Many thanks to </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span>Reinhold Kainhofer for both developing this backend, and for pointing me in the right direction for fixing my problem! </span></span><br>
<br>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.<br>
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<br>HOW-TO: SANE and the Konica Minolta Magicolor 1690MF on Ubuntu <br><br><b>Step 1: Ensure that you have at least version 1.0.22 of sane installed </b><br><br>If you don't know what version of sane you are running, run this command from a terminal:<br>
<br><blockquote style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">scanuser@sane:~$ scanimage -V<br></blockquote><br>You should see something like this as a result:<br>
<br><blockquote style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">scanimage (sane-backends) 1.0.22; backend version 1.0.22<br></blockquote><div><br>(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). <br>
</div><br><b>Step 2: Enable the Magicolor back end</b><br><br>Edit the file /etc/sane.d/dll.conf by running the following command:<br><br><blockquote style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">
sudo gedit /etc/sane.d/dll.conf<br></blockquote><br>Within that file, change the line that reads <br><br><blockquote style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">
#magicolor<br></blockquote><div><br>to <br><br><blockquote style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">magicolor</blockquote><div><br>and save the file. Note: if the magicolor line does not have a hash #, you do not need to edit anything.<br>
<br><b><br>Step 3: Tell the Magicolor back end where to find the network scanner</b><br></div></div><br>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:<br>
<br><blockquote style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">sudo gedit /etc/sane.d/magicolor.conf<br></blockquote><br>After the line that reads <br><br><blockquote style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">
net autodiscovery<br></blockquote><div><br>you need to add a line with the word "net" and IP address of your Magicolor 1690MF scanner. That line should look like this:<br><br><blockquote style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">
net 192.168.0.15 <br></blockquote></div><br>(make sure to change the address to match that of your scanner)<br>Now that you have added the IP address of your scanner, save the file.<br><br><br><b>Step 4: Tell the Magicolor back end where to find the USB scanner</b> <br>
<br>With the 1690MF plugged into your computer via a USB cable, run the command:<br><br><br><blockquote style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><span class="il">sane</span>-find-scanner</blockquote>
<div><br>the output of that command will look something like this: <br></div><br><blockquote style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"> # <span class="il">sane</span>-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the<br>
# result is different from what you expected, first make sure your<br> # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.<br><br> # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that<br>
# you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.<br><br>found USB scanner (vendor=0x132b [KONICA MINOLTA], product=0x2089 [KONICA MINOLTA magicolor 1690MF scan]) at libusb:001:003<br>
# Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by<br> # <span class="il">SANE</span>. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.<br><br> # Not checking for parallel port scanners.<br>
<br> # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports<br>
# can't be detected by this program.<br></blockquote><br>You can ignore everything that starts with a hash tag, but the important part is this line:<br><br><blockquote style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">
found USB scanner (vendor=0x132b [KONICA MINOLTA], product=0x2089 [KONICA MINOLTA magicolor 1690MF scan]) at libusb:001:003<br></blockquote><br>We need to add those two values to the Magicolor back end. to do that, fire up gedit as root:<br>
<br><blockquote style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">sudo gedit /etc/sane.d/magicolor.conf<br></blockquote><br>Find the line that reads: <br><br><blockquote style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">
usb<br></blockquote><div><br>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:<br><br><blockquote style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">
usb 0x132b 0x2089</blockquote></div><br>After you have added that line, save the file.<br><br><b>Step 5: Reboot the machine</b><br><br>Next, reboot the machine (devs, can we get sane to reread the changes without restarting the box? If so, what is the command?)<br>
<br><br><b>Step 6: Test your new scanner</b><br><br>After the reboot, open a terminal window and run the command<br><br><blockquote style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">
xsane<br></blockquote><br>
You should now have a working interface to your Konica Minolta Magicolor 1690MF.<br><br><br clear="all">---<br>Steven Santos<br>Director<br>Simply Circus, Inc.<br>86 Los Angeles Street<br>Newton, MA 02458<br><br>P: 617-527-0667<br>
F: 617-934-1870<br>E: Steven@SimplyCircus.com<br>