Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3566 mails)

[Eberhard Roloff <tuxebi@xxxxxx>]

Clayton wrote:
> I"m trying to help a friedn set up his computer on 10.2.  He has a
> Canon MP600R printer, scanner, kitchen sink.  It's set up as a network
> device, and connected to his router.  We've setup network printing
> (using the Canon 4200 driver) and it works perfectly.
> 
> The next step is the scanner.  It is also a network device.  I know
> the IP address of the scanner/printer (used it to configure the
> printer) but...... I don"t really know how to set up the scanner as a
> network device.  The YAST scanner setup has an option to enable or use
> a network scanner, but it seems to be expecting a scanner daemon
> running on another server.... whatever the Canon scanner is doing, it
> seems that it isn't providing the right answer back...
> 
> Has anyone else played with network scanners?  

Yes, but I am afraid, they are from HP. But they work, especially the HP
kitchen sink devices.

and maybe got the
> scanner on the Canon MP600R working?

No.
Anyway, either Canon supplies a driver for network scanning (like HP
does) or you find a possibility to connect the device locally to a
computer (most probably via usb), make scanning working there with sane
and finally use sane via the network.

Kind regards
Eberhard

> 
> 
> C

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