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I switched today from Windows to Linux. I have a Canon i-SENSYS MF4380dn multifunction printer that is available via network (ethernet). At the Canon site I could find the printer driver and I was able to register the device as network printer. Now I want to install/configure the scanner. I tried different ways via sane etc., e. g. this one: askubuntu but I don't really get how to do the configuration for the network mode. Simple Scan tells me that there is no scanner reachable. Can somebody help me? Thanks in advance.

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  • so SANE is the open-source support for scanning; sane-project.org and if one drills into it, they feel your device is supported; in both the stable; and development variants; however I have seen several cases where adding the development ppa helps; so I suggest that; to add this, there are two commands sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rolfbensch/sane-git and sudo apt-get update as here launchpad.net/~rolfbensch/+archive/ubuntu/sane-git
    – pdc
    Nov 11, 2017 at 6:49
  • there is a file called pixma.conf that lives in /etc/sane.d/ and you may well need to edit that; to add your network address and if you use the text editor the command would gksudo gedit /etc/sane.d/pixma.conf to open it so you can change it; to just look at the command is gedit /etc/sane.d/pixma.confso perhaps do that first so you can see what is involved; this link covers this area askubuntu.com/questions/75887/…
    – pdc
    Nov 11, 2017 at 6:55
  • Sorry for the late response. I added bjnp://192.168.2.199 (thats the ip of my device) to the pixma.conf. If I try to find my scanner via sudo sane-find-scanner or scanimage -Lit will not work. I already pulled and installed the sane stuff. Any ideas?
    – Stefan
    Nov 20, 2017 at 21:04
  • sudo scanimage -L [bjnp] udp_command: ERROR - no data received (timeout = 1000) [bjnp] bjnp_init_device_structure: Cannot read mac address, skipping this scanner [bjnp] udp_command: ERROR - no data received (timeout = 1000) [bjnp] add_scanner: ERROR - Cannot read scanner make & model: bjnp://192.168.2.199:8612/timeout=1000
    – Stefan
    Nov 20, 2017 at 21:14
  • I wondered which version of Ubuntu? you have installed; I ask because the latest; 17.10 seems to have issues with scanners: I have now seen several posts where issues are described;
    – pdc
    Nov 21, 2017 at 3:14

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