UPDATE/CHANGE to: which of THESE scanners/printers will surely work on Ubuntu 22.04?

[Brian]

On Mon 17 Oct 2022 at 17:33:40 +0200, Marco Fioretti wrote:

> After sleeping over this and walking around the closest mall, I
> realized that buying a scanner-only Canon Canoscan LIDE 400 at the
> corner store, and some printer-only thing later on may be a better
> solution for my most urgent problems: very likely, I will have to
> scand 1000+ photographs but print very little in the next 4/6 weeks,
> after that it should be the opposite, i.e. little printing, but very
> little scanning.
> 
> The doubts I have about this solution are:
> 
> - USB-powered??? This worries me. I was giving for granted I would
>   connect this via a small USB hub to an Intel NUC, but it won't work,
>   will it? And if I attached this to the only USB port still available
>   on the NUC, would it drain too much power from a device like that?
> 
> - the SANE website says that scanner is fully supported via the "pixma
> 0.28.6 driver", but I do not understand, or recognize, whether the
> sane package coming with Ubuntu 22.04 does contain that specific
> driver or not, and/or if I would need other packages (Vuescan???):
> 
>      https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/sane
> 
> any help to understand if that scanner will be usable without problems
> on my NUC/Ubuntu 22.04 combination is VERY welcome! Ditto for any
> mention of problems with that scanner that I may have overlooked.

Ubuntu 22.04 provides ipp-usb by default. The LIDE 400 supports
IPP-over-USB and will use it when plugged into a USB port. See

  https://github.com/alexpevzner/sane-airscan

It is possible to arrange for ipp-usb to export the LIDE 400 to
the network. Its being a USB-only device is not a disadvantage.

Ubuntu 22.04 also provides sane-airscan by default and will use
it in preference to the SANE Project's pixma backend. sane-airscan
is not a product of the SANE Project. It uses libsane1, which is
a default package on Ubuntu 22.04.

You should be scanning within a minute or two of plugging the LIDE
400 in.

-- 
Brian.