[sane-devel] Canon PIXMA MP130

Tue Dec 18 22:10:05 UTC 2007

have you read the contribute page at www.sane-project.org? it includes
links to various documents you might find useful, particularly the
website for sniffusb and doc/backend-writing.txt.
you will also want to get a current sane CVS checkout, and read the
sane standard, which is included in the doc directory.

Opening the scanner to look at the chips can often be helpful as well.

allan

On Dec 18, 2007 4:36 PM, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2007/12/18, James Crow <james at ultratans.com>:
> > You might want to check the list archives for Canon PIXMA driver
> > support. I have the MP160 and it is supported. There is driver that
> > works in CVS. It may also include support for your printer.
> > Start here: http://home.arcor.de/wittawat/pixma/
> >
> > Thanks,
> > James
>
> There's exactly where I looked. Here's a quote from that site:
> "
>  Unknown protocol: These devices don't work with this backend and there is
> no easy way to add supports because they use a different command set which
> has to be analyzed first. Co-programmers are welcome! :-) I personally
> cannot do this because I don't have the devices.
>  MP110 4A9:1700 1200 N N - N unsupported
>  MP130 4A9:1701 1200 N N - N unsupported"
>
> I saw that someone wrote here about the MP110. Maybe the MP130 can use the
> same driver?
>
> Anyway, the site I referred to when I first wrote, suggested that someone
> could write a backend to this and other unsupported drivers and it also said
> that it is not a very hard thing to do for people who know a little C, for
> example. Well, since I have studied C a long time ago, I thought that maybe
> this isn't very impossible after all, but I guess I will need some help to
> get me started. I don't know where to begin, kind of. I don't even know
> exactly how a driver in general works... I need some basic knowledge to get
> started, and I just thought that someone here could give me some kind of
> clue where to start or some links that explain things...
>
> What do I need (except a C compiler and the scanner)?
> Can the fact that I also have Windows XP with a working driver be of any
> help? Is there some kind of software for Windows that can give me any clues
> about how the MP130 works?
>
> Yes, I can do some C programming, but I need to know what I need to do...
> otherwise it's kind of being told to create a schoilkus program in C without
> also being told what a schoilkus program is (in this case nothing since I
> just made it up...).
>
> Johnny Rosenberg
> > On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 19:30 +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> > > 2007/12/10, Epostlistor <gurus.knugum at gmail.com>:
> > >         I visited http://www.sane-project.org/contrib.html and readed
> > >         about
> > >         contributing to the project - Writing a Backend (Driver).
> > >
> > >         The page said that "You don't need to be an experienced
> > >         programmer.
> > >         Backends are usually written in C, so some basic knowledge of
> > >         this
> > >         language helps. You need a lot of patience, however,
> > >         especially if you
> > >         can't get programmer's documentation from your scanner's
> > >         manufacturer."
> > >
> > >         I learned C many years ago and I still think I remember most
> > >         of it, but I
> > >         am not programming very much these days. I am writing here
> > >         because I think
> > >         I need all the help I can get. Maybe someone is already doing
> > >         this, then I
> > >         might be able to contribute in some way. If not, it feels like
> > >         there are a
> > >         lot of things I need to know. Maybe there are similar backend
> > >         drivers out
> > >         there that I can get inspiration from and learn how to write
> > >         things like
> > >         that.
> > >
> > >         I have the Canon PIXMA MP130 and my operating system is
> > >         GNU/Linux Ubuntu
> > >         Studio 7.10. I also have a small partition with Windows XP, so
> > >         I can use
> > >         the scanner that way, but of course I want to use it with
> > >         Ubuntu. At the
> > >         moment I can only use the printing function with Ubuntu, but I
> > >         needed to
> > >         install additional software before that was possible.
> > >
> > >         Is there some kind of software for Windows that can "scan"
> > >         what's sent and
> > >         received to/from the MP130 while scanning etc? I guess that
> > >         would help
> > >         somewhat.
> > >
> > >         My idea is to write a very basic driver just to make it
> > >         possible to scan
> > >         with no fancy features (which are pretty useless anyway in
> > >         most cases).
> > >         Some things, like basic image editing, is better done with
> > >         dedicated
> > >         software, such as GIMP, I guess.
> > >
> > >         So, any comments to this? Will this task be too tough for
> > >         someone like
> > >         me..?
> > >
> > >         Johnny Rosenberg
> > >
> > >
> > > Okay, seems like nobody's interested in this, so I guess I'll just
> > > skip the idea and buy another skanner instead. Besides, I guess that I
> > > would have failed doing this anyway.
> > >
> > > Johnny Rosenberg
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