After reading the responses on this thread I decided to try something
out. I picked an old, 3 page telephone bill on 10.3 cm x 17 cm pages.
I scanned this bill with my MG2120 at 1200 bpi full color and saved the
pnm files from xsane for later processing. Each file is 114,489K in
size as thes
Now that I have my Canon PIXMA MG2120 working as a scanner I was looking
at the possibility of using it to scan some documents for archival
purposes. My intent is to scan some old bills and other documents and
database them in some manner before disposing of the originals. As
these are mostly
Rolf Bensch wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> I prepared a patch to fix 1200dpi scans.
>
> First you should install Sane 1.0.24 as described in README.linux.
>
> You can accelerate build time with this special configure command:
> BACKENDS="pixma" ./configure
>
> Then:
> (1) save "pixma_mp150c.diff1" into the
Rolf Bensch wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> Please try a 1200 dpi scan.
>
> If the image is OK, I'll change the status of your scanner as complete
> installed.
>
> Otherwise you need to install Sane 1.0.24 from git and we will go on
> with patching and testing.
>
> The manual installation is described in RE
Rolf Bensch wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> Sane 1.0.24 isn't a released version. Please fetch it from git and
> install in manually on your system. I think that we need to patch some
> small issues. This can only be done with the git version.
>
> Cheers,
> Rolf
I have done a bit more research and located a
Rolf Bensch wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> Please check the used sane version with 'scanimage -V'.
dhdurgee at DHD-Z560 ~/Downloads $ scanimage -V
scanimage (sane-backends) 1.0.22; backend version 1.0.22
> Your scanner should be detected from sane 1.0.23 with 'scanimage -L'.
> You can do a testscan with
The all-in-one went on sale and I decided to buy it to try it. I am
seeing the following on my linux mint katya x64 system here:
> dhdurgee at DHD-Z560 ~/Downloads $ sudo sane-find-scanner
> [sudo] password for dhdurgee:
>
> # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the
>
I see this All-In-One printer/scanner/copier available locally for a
reasonable price. Looking at the supported devices list I see "PIXMA
MG2100 Series" listed as "untested", so I was wondering if anyone here
has tried one yet. If someone has had problems with it I will skip it,
but if it wor
