<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">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)" class="gI"><span class="gD">Reinhold Kainhofer for both developing this backend, and for pointing me in the right direction for fixing my problem! </span></span><br>
<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>Step 3: Tell the Magicolor back end where to find the 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>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>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><div>
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You should now have a working interface to your Konica Minolta Magicolor 1690MF.<br></div><br><br><br>---<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>