sane-pixma(5) SANE Scanner Access Now Easy sane-pixma(5)NAMEsane-pixma - SANE backend for Canon PIXMA MP series
DESCRIPTION
The sane-pixma library implements a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy)
backend that provides access to Canon PIXMA multi-function devices
(All-in-one printers). The backend implements both USB interface and
Network LAN interface using Canon's BJNP protocol. Currently, the fol‐
lowing models work with this backend:
PIXMA MP140, MP150, MP160, MP170, MP180, MP190
PIXMA MP210, MP220, MP240
PIXMA MP450, MP460, MP470, MP480
PIXMA MP500, MP510, MP520, MP530, MP540
PIXMA MP600, MP600R, MP610, MP620, MP630, MP710
PIXMA MP800, MP800R, MP810, MP830, MP960, MP970, MP980
PIXMA MX300, MX310, MX700, MX850, MX7600
MultiPASS MP700, PIXMA MP750 (no grayscale)
ImageCLASS MF4010, MF4018, MF4120, MF4122, MF4140, MF4150
ImageCLASS MF4270
The following models are not well tested and/or the scanner sometimes
hangs and must be switched off and on.
SmartBase MP360, MP370, MP390
MultiPASS MP730, PIXMA MP760, PIXMA MP780
The following models may use the same Pixma protocol as those listed
above, but have not yet been reported to work (or not). They are
declared in the backend so that they get recognized and activated.
Feedback in the Sane-dev mailing list welcome.
PIXMA MP740
PIXMA MP260
ImageCLASS MF3110, MF3240
ImageCLASS MF5630, MF5650, MF5730, MF5750, MF5770, MF8170c
The backend supports
* resolutions at 75,150,300,600,1200,2400 and 4800 DPI (some maybe
buggy),
* color and grayscale mode,
* a custom gamma table,
* Automatic Document Feeder (Duplex for some models).
* Transparency Unit, 24 or 48 bits depth.
The device name is in the form pixma:xxxxyyyy_zzzzz where x, y and z
are vendor ID, product ID and serial number respectively. Example:
pixma:04A91709_123456 is a MP150.
This backend, based on cloning original Canon drivers protocols, is in
a production stage. Designed has been carried out without any applica‐
ble manufacturer documentation, probably never available. However, we
have tested it as well as we could, but it may not work in every situa‐
tions. You will find an up-to-date status at the project homepage. (See
below). Users feedback is essential to help improve features and per‐
formances.
OPTIONS
Besides "well-known" options (e.g. resolution, mode etc.) pixma backend
also provides the following options for button handling, i.e. the
options might change in the future.
Button scan is disabled on MAC OS X due to darwin libusb not handling
timeouts in usb interrupt reads.
button-controlled
This option can be used in combination with scanadf(1) and scan‐
image(1) in batch mode, for example when you want to scan many
photos or multiple-page documents. If it is enabled (i.e. is set
to true or yes), the backend waits before every scan until the
user presses the "SCAN" button (for MP150) or the color-scan
button (for other models). Just put the first page in the scan‐
ner, press the button, then the next page, press the button and
so on. When you finished, press the gray-scan button. (For MP150
you have to stop the frontend by pressing Ctrl-C for example.)
button-update button-1 button-2
These options are interesting for developers. To check button
status: (1) set button-1 and button-2 to zero, (2) set button-
update (Its type is SANE_TYPE_BUTTON.), (3) get button-1 and
button-2. If the result is not zero, the corresponding button
was pressed.
FILES
/usr/lib/sane/libsane-pixma.a
The static library implementing this backend.
/usr/lib/sane/libsane-pixma.so
The shared library implementing this backend (present on systems
that support dynamic loading).
ENVIRONMENT
SANE_DEBUG_PIXMA
If the library was compiled with debug support enabled, this
environment variable controls the debug level for this backend.
Higher value increases the verbosity.
0 print nothing (default)
1 print error and warning messages (recommended)
2 print informational messages
3 print debug-level messages
11 dump USB traffics
21 full dump USB traffics
PIXMA_EXPERIMENT
Setting to a non-zero value will enable the support for experi‐
mental models. You should also set SANE_DEBUG_PIXMA to 10.
SEE ALSOsane(7), sane-dll(5), http://home.arcor.de/wittawat/pixma/,
http://mp610.blogspot.com/
AUTHORS
Wittawat Yamwong, Nicolas Martin, Dennis Lou, Louis Lagendijk
We would like to thank all testers and helpers. Without them we could
not be able to write subdrivers for models we don't have. See also the
project homepage.
28 Feb 2009 sane-pixma(5)
