I am experiencing the same issue after upgrading from 14.04 to 16.04. I have a Brother MFC-L8850CDW network printer/scanner and it used to be detected automatically and work fine with the SimpleScan application. After the upgrade the scanner cannot be detected anymore. The printer still works fine. I tried a few of the suggestions from the previous posts but no luck.
>sudo service saned status ● saned.service Loaded: masked (/dev/null; bad) Active: inactive (dead) >sudo service saned start Failed to start saned.service: Unit saned.service is masked. Any possibility this issue will be resolved soon? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1577137 Title: saned.service masked and cannot be unmasked To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/1577137/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
