[ubuntu-za] Scanners in general and Canon K10339 in particular.

[Tim Johnson]

Here you go. My daughter had the same issue. 
http://support-au.canon.com.au/P/search?model=PIXMA+MP250&menu=download&filter=0&tagname=g_os&g_os=Linux
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On 10 July 2014 7:51:37 PM Bill Cairns <cairnsww at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have found refrences on the web to
> esci-interpreter-gt-f720_0.0.1-2_amd64.deb and a suggestion that it should
> be included too. The trouble is that
> esci-interpreter-gt-f720_0.0.1-2_amd64.deb is not on the download site and
> does not seem available anywhere that I can find ...
>
>
> On 10 July 2014 14:38, Bill Cairns <cairnsww at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I find myself swimming in water that is far deeper than my toes can reach
> > the bottom ...
> >
> > A friend, who is pretty computer literate and who has been pure MS Windows
> > for years, has been forcibly converted to Ubuntu 14.04. Not by me - I am
> > not that brash although I admire his method of evangelism - but by her Geek
> > adviser (who is now, unfortunately, sick and unable to help). She is pretty
> > happy with everything except for the fact that she can't use the scanner in
> > her all-in-one Canon MP250. (Actually that is my first problem - the
> > printer is a MP250 but the scanner might be a K10339. At times they seem to
> > have different model numbers).
> >
> > I had a quick look at her system and sure enough when I tried iscan, it
> > simply said "No devices" or some such disdainful message implying that I
> > should connect a scanner before presuming to scan. The scanner was on and
> > connected and the printer works. I had a quick look at the Internet from
> > her computer but could not find what looked like the right driver anywhere.
> > In fact Canon seems to go out of its way to prevent you finding drivers.
> >
> > She has a dual boot system and I loaded Windows 7, but the Fax / Scan
> > program could not find the scanner either. I don't think that there is a
> > problem with the scanner though - she said it worked recently and :-
> >
> > I don't have a Canon scanner of my own but I do have an Epson V350 which
> > works fine on Windows XP,  7 and Windows 8 but I have never tried
> > connecting it to Linux. When I got home, I connected it up and tried to get
> > it going.
> >
> > At first, I got the same message as I had been getting with the Canon - No
> > device connected. This time though I was able to find what I think are the
> > right drivers (iscan_2.29.3-1~usb0.1.ltdl7_amd64.deb and
> > iscan-data_1.29.0-2_all.deb from
> > 
> http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/du/02/DriverDownloadInfo.do?LG2=EN&CN2=&DSCMI=28880&DSCCHK=ec6ec9b0ae7d86aeadf2c0b88252dbe4149a9831).
> > Now I have made a great advance - iscan seems to find the device quite
> > happily although the bad news is that I can't actually persuade it to do a
> > scan. (This is all an academic exercise in that I don't need a scanner on
> > this Linux machine ... I am just trying to understand things a bit better).
> >
> > I would appreciate any advice you might be able to give me. I don't want
> > the nice lady to throw up her hands and say that she prefers Windows!
> >
> > Bill
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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