New scanner

Posted by on 23 Dec 2010 in Labs, Activity log

Old scanner died.
Bought a new one (Canon CanoScan 8800F).
SANE website says it's fully supported by the PIXMA library.

Experience: under Lucid (libsane v1.0.20) I get nothing. I found a reference to a hack which requires editing a udev rule if it doesn't include the scanner info, but it apparently relies on a newer version of SANE (v1.0.21) - of course.

I tried it in Maverick, which includes v1.0.21 and it works.

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