Unable to install Canon LiDE 300 on Ubuntu 18.04. How to solve it?
I have Canon Pixma G3012 All-in-One Wireless Ink Tank Colour Printer
I am trying to scan a document from my Linux Ubuntu 18 installed PC using simple scan software.
Connected the device into PC over USB and powered on. Opened simple scan software and tried to scan the document. But got the message as "no scanner available please connect a scanner"
Already installed the driver package named scangearmp2-3.30-1-deb.tar.gz.
Used command sane-find-scanner and got below result
found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x183b [G3010 series]) at libusb:001:004
# Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by
# SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.
Issued command scanimage -L and got below results.
No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).
Referred below two links.
http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-CANON
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SANE%20-%20Installing%20a%20scanner%20that%20isn%27t%20auto-detected
After that manually added below line in file named /etc/sane.d/genesys.conf
# Canon PIXMA G3012
usb 0x04a9 0x183b
Run the command scanimage -L again but still got scanner not detected message.
Any help is much appreciated.
Adding to this Printing function is working fine for this device. Tested and verified but difficulty in scanning.
Okay. There is an improvement.
I have installed the scangearmp2-3.60-1-deb.tar.gz package by removing scangearmp2-3.30-1-deb.tar.gz. After that scanning is working by initiating the command "scangearmp2". But still simple-scan doesn't detect scanner.
Found below comment from link
Canon MB2320: Scangear works, but simplescan and xsane don't find scanner
Canon does not develop SANE drivers for their scanners but they provide an own solution scangearmp for basic scan functions. This will of course not allow using SANE backends such as simplescan or xsane
For many PIXMA scanners there is a SANE implementation sane-pixma but I could not test if these work or can be made working with the Canon MAXIFY series.
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/cosmic/en/man5/sane-pixma.5.html
Any idea how the sane-pixma can be installed in ubuntu18.04?
I'm new to Linux and installed Ubuntu 15.10 few days ago. I can successfully print on my Canon i-SENSYS MF4890dw, but when trying to scan with Xsane I get the following:
Failed to open device 'pixma:MF4800_10.237.93.145': invalid argument
As I have read some feeds from other similar threads, I've tried on Xterm:
scanimage -T
which returns:
scanimage: open of device pixma:MF4800_10.237.93.145 failed: Invalid argument
and
uname -r
which returns 4.2.0-25-generic.
My printer ran out of black ink, but the color cartridge still has a lot of ink. I want to print using only ink from the color cartridge. I used to be able to do this using advanced printer settings of the printer driver in Windows 7. I was wondering if and how it can be done using Ubuntu. I'm also new to Ubuntu,so I have no idea how to fiddle around with advanced settings.
My printer is a Canon iP2770 inkjet.
Initially this question was limited to 11.10. Now I am in (Lubuntu) 12.10. (On the changes in the question see this meta question).
Considering 11.10
I have tried different (or not so different) approaches - that also other users commented here. My main references were:
- the ubuntu official documentation website on the LBP Canon driver package,
- this Unixmen solution which partly refers to Radu Cotescu script that aims at providing a near-automated install, and
- an updated by Unixmen version of that very script (download here).
None worked for me.