Canon MP280 scanner not working

Question

I have a Canon mp280 all-in-one. I have tried many things to get the scanner to work but everything failed. When I run sane - find - scanner ubuntu replies:

found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x1746 [MP280 series]) at libusb:001:004
found USB scanner (vendor=0x0846, product=0x9018) at libusb:001:003

I have the following packages intalled:

Canon Printer Driver Common Modules-  cndrvcups-common 2.50-1-2~precise1 
IJ Printer Driver for Linux.-         cnijfilter-common 3.90-63~precise1
IJ Printer Driver for Linux.          cnijfilter-mp280series 3.90-63~precise1
ScanGear MP for Linux.                scangearmp-common 2.10-33~precise1
ScanGear MP for Linux.                scangearmp-mp280series 2.10-33~precise1

The printer works since the first day I installed ubuntu but the scanner never.

I have tried the following softwares:

• Xsane
• Simple Scan
• Scanlite

I have installed the PPA's as described buy Ubuntu ask pages in:

http://www.launchpad.net/~michael-gruz/+archive/canon-trunk

I added:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:michael-gruz/canon-trunk

plus:

sudo apt-get update

Just before I send this question I run scangearamp from terminal and it FINALLY WORKED. but only typing the above command in the terminal.

Is there something I can do to improve that?

Answer 1

Have you tried using the official drivers from Canon?

Answer 2

If you have installed the drivers from Canon, the ScanGear application is there too.

Run scangearmp. That command can be added into a .desktop file, like so.

Or run from Gimp: File-Create-SangearMP.

ScanGear can save as pdf