Sorry that I tend to keep my contact with Windows to a minimum. It is my friend's printer and I watched her run it under Windows and then I went to my Ubuntu machine. It is definitely Ricoh, scanback 3.3.3 (maybe only 3.3?) The printer is an IBM Infoprint 1650 MFP. I'm not familiar with a wireshark trace. I guess you would like me to capture whatever the scanback is sending to the printer. I suppose if we knew what it was sending, we could send the same string from Ubuntu and have it ship back to a shared folder on Ubuntu the resulting pdf file.
Ilan On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 5:19 PM, m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote: > Well, you could start by telling us the brand name, Ricoh perhaps? > Second, perhaps you could get a wireshark trace of the windows driver > making a small, low resolution network scan? Make sure you capture the > entire packet length. Then compress that log, and put it up on the web > where we can reach it. Perhaps someone will recognize the protocol. > > allan > > On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Ilan Tal <ilan.tal at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > I may be asking something impossible. If so, please let me know. > > > > I have an infoprint 1650 mfp printer/scanner which is on a LAN, stand > alone > > and not connected to any particular computer. The printer part works just > > fine, out-of-the-box. The scanner part is another story. SANE doesn't > detect > > the scanner. > > > > In Windows there is a "scanback" program which basically puts a > "protocol" > > on the printer by which the user put the document into the scanner, > presses > > a button on the scanner and the document is scanned and a pdf file is > > shipped over the LAN to the Windows PC. Thus it seems clear that Windows > too > > doesn't directly see the scanner. Apparently this is the reason SANE > doesn't > > see it either. > > > > Since Windows has a solution, I would like a solution for Ubuntu as well. > > Otherwise one is stuck with Windows. I wonder if anyone has any ideas on > > what might be available, or how to solve the problem? > > > > Thanks, > > Ilan > > > > > > -- > > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > > to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > > > > > > -- > "The truth is an offense, but not a sin" > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20110911/3385bcea/attachment.html>
