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rasmuz

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Registered: 2012-01-02

Posts: 30

Scanner problem (Canon PIXMA MP150)

Hi!

I installed sane and it detected my usb scanner successfully (Canon Pixma MP150).

Now when i try to scan something with command: scanimage -d pixma:04A91709_4029FC -x 50 -y 50 --format=tiff > test.tiff
The output is: scanimage: sane_read: Error during device I/O

Last edited by rasmuz (2012-08-18 22:08:04)

Techmeology

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Registered: 2012-08-21

Posts: 19

Re: Scanner problem (Canon PIXMA MP150)

Have you tried adding your user to the scanner group:

gpasswd -a your_username scanner

If it still doesn't work, does xsane work? Have a look at: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sane

David Batson

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Registered: 2011-10-13

Posts: 640

Re: Scanner problem (Canon PIXMA MP150)

I got my Canon MFP printer scanner only to work with Canon's scangearmp utility.  You might try installing the scangearmp utility for the MP160 as the MP160 printer drivers are reported to work for the MP150. After installing, run scangearmp from terminal as root to bring up the GUI app.

http://support-au.canon.com.au/P/search … g_os=Linux

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=129048