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Scanner detected with sane-find-scanner, but not with scanimage -L or sudo scanimage -L

I have a Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300i. I compiled SANE from source. When I run sane-find-scanner, the following output is given: sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the result ...
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Samsung SCX-3201 MFP scanner not working

I have a Samsung SCX-3201 MFP multifunction printer and after plugging it into the computer it recognises the printer part, but the scanner is not detected. Since that I've fresh installed and did ...
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How well-supported is the Canon CanoScan LiDE110?

On the list of supported SANE devices the scanner is listed as fully supported but it says: resolution from 75 to 2400 dpi Here is a link to Newegg's item listing, where it lists the optical ...
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Brother MFC-7420 Scanner on Ubuntu 12.04: Invalid Argument

I have a Brother MFC-7420, which also works as a scanner. I have attached this machine to a computer running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64bit via USB. I installed the following package: ...
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How do I install drivers for the Panasonic MB1900CX All-in-One Printer/Scanner?

I bought a new Panasonic Printer/Scanner/Copier, I am going to to install it, but Ubuntu cant find It`s driver! I find a driver in Panasonic website but it is 32bit and can not run in my laptop! ...
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Ubuntu 12.04: Samsung ML-2955DW not print

After installing and configuring "Unified Linux Driver" from the samsung website the printer doesn't print. I'm using 12.04.1. In the printer driver list, even after installing the "Unified Linux ...
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Building SANE from git-source produce backend missmatch on 12.04 even if built locally

It seems to me that with Ubuntu Precise Pangolin it is all but easy to do a proper install of SANE from source (git-repo). I've found other scanning issues trying to find an answer to this, where the ...
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Where should I report a bug and apply the fix?

I've identified a bug in XSane and have a four-line fix for it. I'm a little confused as to where I should go to have this fix incorporated... Should I submit a bug report to Ubuntu, Debian, XSane, or ...
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Scanning from HP PhotoSmart C4580 - what is SANE?

I have a multifunction HP printer/scanner. I've always used it wirelessly with a PC before now, but want to connect it to my Maverick laptop. I have hplip installed and have connected the machine to ...
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How to configure Brother DCP-7030 Scanner?

Can I install my scanner drivers through wine, using the windows driver cd packaged with my scanner? I am using the Brother DCP-7030 Scanner and my system is running Ubuntu 11.10. I need help to set ...
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Setting up SANED with sane-test

I'm trying to setup a network service for running saned (running the sane-test backend) on Ubuntu 12.10, running it on a virtualbox. I followed the directions found here and I got to the point where ...
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Can't recognize my Colorpage hr6 slim scanner

am using Ubuntu 11.10 and I have scanner called "genius colorpage hr6x slim" and when I run simple scan it just can't detected it; I tried "XSANE" but It gave the same answer! When I run "dmesg" It ...
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Canon LIDE 110 - lsusb sane-find-scanner

I'd like to use a Canon LIDE 110 scanner under Ubuntu 10. Here are the results of lsusb and sane-find-scanner: $ lsusb Bus 008 Device 002: ID 1532:001a Razer USA, Ltd Bus 008 Device 001: ID ...
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Samsung driver doesn't detect SANE correctly

From 13.04 (server) I'm trying to install the Samsung Unified Printer Driver as specified by https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsPrintersSamsung which has a dead link. In any event, the ...
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sane usb scanner works, but sane-find-scanner doesn't find it

I am trying to make my Canon pixma MP540 work under Ubuntu 12.10. I have installed SANE using their install instructions file. Now, I did sudo sane-find-scanner and it found no devices. I started ...
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How to get a HP ScanJet 5200C with Sane-HP working on 12.04?

I'm running 12.04 on a Dell Inspiron Mini 1012, and I recently acquired a HP ScanJet 5200C that I am having trouble using. My searching has led me to this SANE backend for HP printers. ...
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I can't get XSANE to work in lubuntu 12.04

XSANE does not see my scanner (part of a Lexmark all-in-one S350). It worked fine,using Ubuntu 10.04. Printing works fine. The all-in-one printer is wireless. The router sees it. I can ping it. I can ...
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“Iscan” only runs as root

I've upgraded to ubuntu 12.04, and I now want to run "iscan" (I've updated the packages like I did before). When I run iscan as a regular user, it says: "COuld not send command to scanner". But ...
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Using Canon LIde 700F with xane over USB

I know, I know, I should have never gotten a Canon to connect to a Linux box... But the SANE supported-scanners doc said that the CanoScan 700F is supported "Good". I took that to mean that it can ...
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What happened to scsi_mod in Quantal?

Since installing 12.10 (Quantal) on a new disk I can no longer reach my old SCSI Umax scanner. I tried "sudo modprobe scsi_mod" but there is no such module on my system. What happened to this ...
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sharing canon all in one over network

I have Ubuntu 12.04 installed on an old computer I want to use as a file and printer server in a small office. I have samba sharing set up for file sharing and I've been able to get all the computers ...
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How to hotplug a SCSI scanner

I used to be able to get my SCSI scanner to work, even if it wasn't turned on at boot, by removing and loading again the kernel module for the SCSI card (nothing else connected to it). Now with ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 login hangs on “Checking Battery” or “SANED,” then returns to login screen

Working earlier tonight, my mouse froze in the middle of the screen, and so I restarted my system. Upon trying to log back in, the screen flashes black, and something along the lines of saned: edit ...
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How do I get a CardScan 60 II working with SANE?

I have a CardScan 60 II device and installed SANE in my Ubuntu 10.10 laptop. The problem is I can't make scanimage find the device. Quote: $ sudo sane-find-scanner # sane-find-scanner will now ...