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

[Keith]

On 10/18/22 2:03 PM, Brian wrote:
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> Additionally, why such emphasis on libsane1's pixma backend? As
> alluded to earlier, Ubunti 22.04 will use the very capable airscan
> backen by default. Which one is the most sutable backend can only
> be determined  by someone in possession of the scanner.

I'm not advocating for sane's pixma driver over airscan. I made no 
mention of airscan or even the pixma driver's suitability for his 
purpose in any of my posts.

In my first reply, I was merely addressing Marco's concern expressed in 
his first post about whether the sane backend drivers in Jammy was 
recent enough to contain the pixma driver version provided by the SANE 
Project. And it does with the libsane1 package so his device should be 
supported. If he's going to use the pixma driver from the sane-backend 
package, I recommended he go with the one Jammy provides first because 
its recent enough plus you dont have to mess with 3rd-party PPA's, 
especially ones that don't actually have any packages to install. But if 
Marco wants to use a version that is a few months more recent, then he 
could use the PPA at the link I provided, though I seriously doubt there 
will be any significant differences between it and the one that Jammy 
provides at least as far as the pixma driver is concerned.

That's all that I conveyed in my posts, heh.

But, yeah, he could go with airscan. Why not? In fact, there's no 
conflict between the libsane1 and sane-airscan packages so both could be 
installed. In fact, sane-airscan is a recommended dependency of 
libsane1! So installing libsane1  will automatically install 
sane-airscan! Aye yi yi.

-- 
Keith