Canon Pixma Scanner Driver for Linux

Copyright (C) 2006 Martin Schewe

Introduction

This is a driver for the Canon Pixma MP7x0 scanner, which has been developed by sniffing and analysing the Windows driver's communication. It is far from perfect, but after all, it supports among other things these basic features: all resolutions: 75/150/300/600/... dpi user defined image offsets and sizes ADF and flatbed calibration reset / recovery on errors basic status handling and things I might have forgotten :) If you have a Pixma scanner other than 7x0, you should consider contacting me. It is pretty simple to check if your scanner uses a similar protocol and maybe your model could be integrated smoothly by just adding another USB product ID. Compatibility MP730, MP750, MP760, MP780 :  supported MP150, MP170, MP450, MP500 : work in progress MP800, MP830 : unknown MP110, MP130 : looks incompatible Mailing list pixma-devel

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Installation

$ make
$ sudo make install

Test

$ sudo make test

Usage

Canon Pixma Scanner Driver 0.1
Copyright (C) 2006  Martin Schewe

Usage: pixma_scan [OPTION]... -o <outfile.pnm>

-r <resolution>        set resolution in dpi (default: 75)
-x <x>     -y <y>      set image offset
-w <width> -h <height> set image size
-c                     calibrate before scanning
-a                     use ADF
-m                     use monochrome color weights
-v <level>             set verbosity level (default: 1)
-o <outfile.pnm>       write PNM image date to outfile.pnm

Example

$ sudo pixma_scan -r 150 -x 60 -y 10 -w 800 -h 580 -o test.pnm

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