[sane-devel] SANE backend for Canon PIXMA MG8250

2013-04-12 Thread Rolf Bensch
Hi Volker, If you want to read the program and backend version use: 'scanimage -V'. You can do a test scan with 'scanimage test.pnm'. But it's easier to use a graphic frontend like xsane. If your scanner still won't work, I need a log file from scanning a small area of approx. 5mm x 5mm @

[sane-devel] SANE backend for Canon PIXMA MG8250

2013-04-12 Thread Volker Lenhardt
Hi Rolf, first of all, will the testing procedure be a matter of interest for this mailing list or should it be a dialogue between the two of us? I'll do it both ways for a start. I report my testing steps here and send you the files in question by private email. I forgot to mention: my OS is

[sane-devel] SANE backend for Canon PIXMA MG8250

2013-04-11 Thread Volker Lenhardt
Hi, I'm new here. My work environment is openSUSE 12.3, KDE 4.10, sane-backends 1.0.23. It happens that there is a SANE driver for my new printer-scanner Canon PIXMA MG8250: /usr/share/sane/descriptions/pixma.desc: model PIXMA MG8200 Series :interface USB :usbid 0x04a9 0x1756 :status :untested