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Hi there jz77f



.............. so I'm wondering if you installed ScanGearMP?

You can get it from here

http://support-asia.canon-asia.com/contents/ASIA/EN/0100302702.html

Go back to post #133 and do what freart told you to do;

I enclose a thumbnail of the box one edits

sometimes computers have minds of their own; and perhaps your computer has entered a more mellow phase; enjoy

that's great; you need to be a member of the lp group and now you are ....so the command did that for you;

there are various topics on the issue

http://www.tuxradar.com/answers/412

is this helpful?

thanks for all this; you seem very fluent in what you are doing;

if you check what



and

hi kouni: welcome to the ubuntu forums.........

.........If you have installed scangearmp...... well done..

(and you can check the installation is good by copying and pasting the command below...

Canon provide a utility to edit the printer settings ..it is called cngpij

if you type this into a terminal



I enclose a screenshot for my MG entitled grayscale

.......... you comment

..can we check if you have scangearmp installed? It is the programme Canon supply to run your scanner ..

if you copy and paste

into a terminal (use the Menu/Edit option to paste)

and if it...

that's fine: so you have right drivers installed ......

so the ink etc must all be fine because it works in windows.....I don't know...........

.....and you have never edited the .ppd file?
...

can you copy and paste this command



and copy and paste back the results .....it checks to see what driver you have installed...........

twipley:
aikishugyo is the real expert on scanning and sane;

I am much more of a plodder.......

If I give you some very direct pointers to help you find scangear?

go here
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the 12.04 version of Ubuntu is called the LTS version;

LTS= long-term support

have a read at this wiki

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS

so 12.04 will be supported till 2017; so ideally suited...

so I followed your instructions;

before make, it advised installed libusb-dev; which I did;

sudo xsane after the above still produced no devices recognised;

if you can guide me on what is...

thanks



........please spell out what I am to do........



......pasted your git command into a terminal and it is happening

Hi Gernot;

is it okay to use this thread for investigating the scanning of the MG2160 and the MG3160?

1.0.14-9 is the version of sane that I have installed

so I coped into a terminal

thanks for this post aikishugyo; pleased to help if I can with the MG2100 and the MG3100

lsusb for the 2100 gives



and sane-find-scanner gives

sorry to hear you are so frustrated about the installation; you sound very fed up and brassed off with things;

as part of your frustration and irritation you say



to help that sort of...

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I wondered what you did to get your Canon scanner to work:

Canon provide the programme scangear and sadly there is not a GUI interface for it, so you initially issue the command

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