[Linux-aus] printer advice

[Peter Barker]

My Canon PIXMA MG3660 scans fine using Skanlite (or XSane for more 
control). I don't do very much printing, but have had no problems.
Using driver Canon MG3600 series Ver.5.20 - I think this is part of CUPS 
on Ubuntu?
Peter Barker

On 31/5/23 09:16, NeilBrown via linux-aus wrote:
> On Wed, 31 May 2023, Russell Stuart wrote:
>>
>> The scanners on the MFP's are a different story.  Mine scans (it's a
>> ET-5170).  But getting scanners to work has always been a struggle for
>> me.  The ET-5170 does scan from my laptop (and phone) using the Epson
>> supplied close source binary.  It's GUI looked very pretty on start up
>> but isn't particularly ergonomic, and it segfaults on occasion.  In my
>> experience that's par for the course for vendor supplied software.  If
>> you can find a scanner supported by SANE you can use open source
>> software, which will be more reliable.  I couldn't.
> 
> The easiest way to scan on my MFPs is to connect to the embedded web
> server.  It works, and doesn't require closed software (outside the
> computer).  It certainly isn't ideal for high throughput, but the
> hardware itself can only take one page at a time, so if I wanted high
> throughput, I would buy different hardware.
> 
> If I REALLY wanted to I could probably write a script with curl to
> automate some of it.
> 
> NeilBrown
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