sane-pixma.5



sane-pixma(5)            SANE Scanner Access Now Easy            sane-pixma(5)


NAME

       sane-pixma  -  SANE  backend  for  Canon  Multi-Function  Printers  and
       CanoScan Scanners


DESCRIPTION

       The sane-pixma library implements a  SANE  (Scanner  Access  Now  Easy)
       backend  that  provides access to Canon PIXMA / i-SENSYS / imageCLASS /
       imageRUNNER multi-function devices (All-in-one printers) and the  Canon
       CanoScan Flatbed/TPU scanners.  The backend implements both the USB in-
       terface and network interface (using Canon's BJNP and MFNP  protocols).
       The network interface supports scanners over IPv4 as well as IPv6 (MFNP
       over IPv6 is untested).

       Currently, the following models work with this backend:

              PIXMA E410, E510, E4500
              PIXMA G600, G2000, G2010, G2030,  G2070,  G2100,  G3030,  G3070,
              G4000, G4070, G4511
              PIXMA GX1000, GX2000, GX3000, GX4000, GX6000, GX6500, GX7000
              PIXMA MG2100, MG2200, MG2400, MG2500, MG2900, MG3000, MG3100
              PIXMA MG3200, MG3500, MG3600, MG4200, MG5100, MG5200, MG5300
              PIXMA MG5400, MG5500, MG5600, MG5700, MG6100, MG6200, MG6300
              PIXMA MG6400, MG7100, MG7500, MG7700, MG8200
              PIXMA MP140, MP150, MP160, MP170, MP180, MP190
              PIXMA MP210, MP220, MP230, MP240, MP250, MP260, MP270, MP280
              PIXMA MP360, MP370, MP390
              PIXMA MP450, MP460, MP470, MP480, MP490, MP495
              PIXMA MP500, MP510, MP520, MP530, MP540, MP550, MP560
              PIXMA MP600, MP600R, MP610, MP620, MP630, MP640
              PIXMA MP700, MP710, MP730, PIXMA MP750 (no grayscale)
              PIXMA MP800, MP800R, MP810, MP830
              PIXMA MP960, MP970, MP980, MP990
              PIXMA MX300, MX310, MX330, MX340, MX350, MX360, MX370
              PIXMA MX410, MX420, MX470, MX510, MX520, MX530, MX700, MX720
              PIXMA MX850, MX860, MX870, MX882, MX885, MX890, MX920, MX7600
              PIXMA TC-20M, TC-5200M
              PIXMA TR4500, TR4600, TR4700
              PIXMA TS2400, TS2600, TS3100, TS3300, TS3450, TS3451, TS3452
              PIXMA TS3500, TS5000, TS5100, TS5350i, TS5400, TS6100, TS6200
              PIXMA TS7530, TS7450i ,TS8000, TS8200, TS8530, TS8630, TS8630
              PIXUS MP10
              imageCLASS MF634Cdw, MF733Cdw
              imageCLASS MF3110, MF3240, MF4010, MF4018
              imageCLASS MF4120, MF4122, MF4140, MF4150
              imageCLASS MF4270, MF4350d, MF4370dn, MF4380dn
              imageCLASS MF4410, MF4430, MF4570dw, MF4660, MF4690
              imageCLASS MF5730, MF5770, MF6550, MPC200
              imageCLASS D420, D480, D530, D570
              i-SENSYS MF210, MF230, MF240, MF440, MF620, MF630, MF640
              i-SENSYS MF645C, MF730, MF731/733, MF741/743
              i-SENSYS MF3010, MF4320d, MF4330d, MF4500, MF4700, MF4800
              i-SENSYS MF6100, MF8030, MF8200C, MF8300
              imageRUNNER 1018/1022/1023, 1020/1024/1025, 1133
              CanoScan 8800F, 9000F, 9000F Mark II
              CanoScan LiDE 300, 400
              MAXIFY MB2000, MB2100, MB2300, MB2700, MB5000, MB5100, MB5400

       The  following  models are not well tested and/or the scanner sometimes
       hangs and must be switched off and on.

              PIXMA MP760, MP770, MP780, MP790

       The following models may use the same Pixma protocol  as  those  listed
       above,  but  have  not yet been reported to work (or not). They are de-
       clared in the backend so that they get recognized and activated.  Feed-
       back in the sane-devel mailing list welcome.

              PIXMA E400, E460, E470, E480, E500, E560, E600, E610
              PIXMA E3100, E3300, E3400, E4200
              PIXMA G2020, G2060, G3020, G3060, G7000, G7080
              PIXMA MG4100, MG6500, MG6600, MG6800, MG6900, MG8100
              PIXMA MP375R, MP493, MP740
              PIXMA MX320, MX390, MX430, MX450, MX490, MX710
              PIXMA G3000, G3010, G4010, G6000, G6080, G7000, GM4000, GM4080
              PIXMA  TR7500,  TR7530,  TR7600,  TR7800, TR8500, TR8530, TR8580
              TR8600
              PIXMA TR8630, TR9530
              PIXMA TS3400, TS5100, TS6000, TS6130,  TS6180,  TS6230,  TS6280,
              TS6300
              PIXMA  TS6330,  TS6330,  TS6380, TS6400, TS6630, TS6730, TS7330,
              TS7400,
              PIXMA TS7430, TS7600i, TS7700, TS7700A, TS7700i, TS8100, TS8130
              PIXMA TS8180, TS8230, TS8280, TS8300,  TS8330,  TS8380,  TS8700,
              TS9000
              PIXMA TS9100, TS9180, TS9500, TS9580
              PIXUS  MP5,  XK50,  XK60, XK70, XK80, XK90, XK100, XK110, XK120,
              XK500
              imageCLASS MF720, MF810/820, MF5630, MF5650, MF5750, MF8170c
              imageCLASS MPC190, D550
              i-SENSYS MF110, MF220, MF260, MF410, MF420, MF510, MF520, MF740,
              MF750
              i-SENSYS MF5880dn, MF5900, MF6680dn, MF8500C
              MAXIFY MB5300

       The  following  models  may use partly the same Pixma protocol as other
       devices listed above, but may still need some work. They  are  declared
       in  the  backend  as  experimental  and  need  the environment variable
       PIXMA_EXPERIMENT=1 to get recognized and activated. Snoop logs are  re-
       quired  to  further  investigate, please contact the sane-devel mailing
       list.

              -- none --

       The backend supports:

              * resolutions of 75, 150, 300, 600, 1200, 2400, 4800,  and  9600
              DPI (some maybe buggy),
              *  color  and grayscale mode, as well as lineart on certain mod-
              els,
              * a custom gamma table,
              * Automatic Document Feeder, Simplex and Duplex,
              * Transparency Unit, 24 or 48 bits depth.  Infrared  channel  on
              certain models.

       The  device  name  for  USB devices is in the form pixma:xxxxyyyy_zzzzz
       where x, y and z are vendor ID, product ID and  serial  number  respec-
       tively.

       Example: pixma:04A91709_123456 is a MP150.

       Device  names  for  BJNP/MFNP  devices  is in the form pixma:aaaa_bbbbb
       where aaaa is the scanners model and bbbb is the hostname or ip-adress.

       Example: pixma:MF4800_192.168.1.45 is a  MF4800  Series  multi-function
       peripheral.

       This  backend, based on cloning original Canon drivers protocols, is in
       a production stage. Design has been carried out without any  applicable
       manufacturer  documentation, probably never available. However, we have
       tested it as well as we could, but it may not work in  all  situations.
       You  will  find  an up-to-date status at the project homepage. (See be-
       low).  Users feedback is essential to help improve features and perfor-
       mances.


OPTIONS

       Besides  "well-known"  options (e.g. resolution, mode etc.)  sane-pixma
       backend also provides the following options,  i.e.  the  options  might
       change in the future.
       The button status can be polled i.e. with scanimage -A.
       Button  scan  is disabled on MAC OS X due to darwin libusb not handling
       timeouts in usb interrupt reads, but may work when  using  the  network
       protocol.

       adf-wait
              This  option  enables and sets the time in seconds waiting for a
              document inserted into the Automatic Document Feeder.  The maxi-
              mum allowed waiting time is 3600 sec (= 1 hour).

       button-controlled
              This  option  can  be  used by applications (like scanadf(1) and
              scanimage(1)) in batch mode, for example when you want  to  scan
              many  photos  or multiple-page documents. If it is enabled (i.e.
              is set to true or yes), the backend waits before every scan  un-
              til the user presses the "SCAN" button (for MP150) or the color-
              scan button (for other models). Just put the first page  in  the
              scanner,  press the button, then the next page, press the button
              and so on. When you finished, press the gray-scan  button.  (For
              MP150 you have to stop the frontend by pressing Ctrl-C for exam-
              ple.)

       button-update (deprecated)
              (write only) In the past this option was required to be  set  to
              force  reading  of  the button status for button-1 and button-2.
              The sane-pixma backend no longer  requires  this  option  to  be
              used:  if  no  fresh data is available, it will be now requested
              automatically from the scanner. This option is left for backward
              compatibility reasons.

       button-1 button-2
              (read  only)  These options will return the value of the respec-
              tive buttons.  Value 0 means that the button was not pressed,  1
              is  returned  when  the  button was pressed. Some scanners, with
              more than two buttons, send the button number as target.

       original
              (read only) Returns the value of the type or size of original to
              be  scanned  if  the scanner provides that data. Known values of
              type: 1 = document, 2 = photo, 5 = film. Known values of size: 1
              = A4, 2 = Letter, 8 = 10x15, 9 = 13x18, b = auto.  Not all scan-
              ners can provide this data.

       target (read only) Returns the value of the target of the  scan  opera-
              tion if the scanner provides that data. The values depend on the
              scanner type. Known values: 1 = save to disk, 2 = save to pdf, 3
              =  send to email, 4 = send to application or 1 = JPEG, 2 = TIFF,
              3 = PDF, 4 = Compact PDF. For some scanners this value is equiv-
              alent  to the number of the pressed button. Not all scanners can
              provide this data.

       scan-resolution
              (read only) Returns the resolution of the scan operation if  the
              scanner  provides  that  data. Known values: 1 = 75 dpi, 2 = 150
              dpi, 3 = 300 dpi, 4 = 600 dpi. Not all scanners can provide this
              data.

       document-type
              (read  only)  Returns  the  type  of the scanned document if the
              scanner provides that data. Known values:  1  =  Document,  2  =
              Photo, 3 = Auto scan. Not all scanners can provide this data.

       adf-status
              (read  only)  Returns  the  status of the document feeder if the
              scanner provides that data. Known values: 1 = ADF empty, 2 = ADF
              filled. Not all scanners can provide this data.

       adf-orientation
              (read  only)  Returns the scan orientation of the medium scanned
              from ADF if the scanner provides that data. Known  values:  1  =
              Portrait, 2 = Landscape. Not all scanners can provide this data.


FILES

       /usr/local/lib/sane/libsane-pixma.a
              The static library implementing this backend.

       /usr/local/lib/sane/libsane-pixma.so
              The shared library implementing this backend (present on systems
              that support dynamic loading).

       /usr/local/etc/sane.d/pixma.conf
              The  backend  configuration  file  (see  also   description   of
              SANE_CONFIG_DIR below).

              The  file  contains an optional list of networked scanners using
              the BJNP or MFNP protools (See below for datails  on  networking
              support  for  scanners).  Normally  only scanners that cannot be
              auto-detected because they are on a different  subnet  shall  be
              listed  here. If you do not use Linux and your OS does not allow
              enumeration of interfaces (i.e. it does not support the getifad-
              drs()  function)  you  also may need to add your scanner here as
              well.

              Scanners shall be listed in the configuration file as follows:

                     <method>://<host>[:port][/timeout=<value>]

              method indicates the protocol used.  bjnp  is  used  for  inkjet
                     multi-functionals  and mfnp is used for laser multi-func-
                     tionals).

              host   is the hostname  or  IP  address  of  the  scanner,  e.g.
                     bjnp://10.0.1.4                 for                 IPv4,
                     bjnp://[2001:888:118e:18e2:21e:8fff:fe36:b64a] for a lit-
                     eral  IPv6-address or bjnp://myscanner.mydomain.org for a
                     hostname.

              port   is optional and is normally implied by the method.   Port
                     8610 is the standard port for mfnp, 8612 for bjnp.

              timeout
                     scanner-specific  timeout value for the network protocol.
                     The value is in ms.

              Define each scanner each on a separate line.

              More globally-applicable timeouts can be  set  using  the  bjnp-
              timeout parameter as follows:

                     bjnp-timeout=<value>

              A timeout defined using bjnp-timeout will apply to the following
              scanner definitions in the file. If required,  the  bjnp-timeout
              setting  can  be defined multiple times, where each setting will
              apply only to the scanners that follow  the  setting.  The  last
              setting is used for auto-discovered scanners.  If not explicitly
              set, the default 1000ms setting will apply.

              Setting timeouts should only be required in exceptional cases.

       If so desired, networking can be disabled as follows:

              networking=no
                     If the first non-commented line contains this  entry  all
                     networking  will  be disabled.  All further statements in
                     the configuration file will be ignored.

              auto_detection=no
                     This line will cause auto-detection to be  skipped.   Ex-
                     plicitly defined network scanners will still be probed.


USB SUPPORT

       USB scanners will be auto-detected and require no configuration.


NETWORKING SUPPORT

       The  sane-pixma  backend  supports network scanners using the so called
       Canon BJNP and MFNP protocols.

       Canon seems to be dropping support for these protocols in recent  scan-
       ners.  To verify if your scanner supports one of these protocols, check
       the content of the _scanner._tcp service entry  in  mDNS/DNS-SD  (using
       for  example  avahi-discover(1)).   If  that does not list port 8610 or
       8612 your scanner probably does not support the mfmp or bjnp protols.

       Both IPv4 and IPv6 are supported, but IPv6  is  as  yet  untested  with
       MFNP. Please report your results on the mailing list.

       Configuration  is  normally  not required.  The sane-pixma backend will
       auto-detect your scanner if it is within the same subnet as  your  com-
       puter if your OS does support this.

       If  your  scanner  can  not  be  auto-detected,  you  can add it to the
       sane-pixma configuration file (see above).


FIREWALLING FOR NETWORKED SCANNERS

       The sane-pixma backend communicates with port 8610  for  MFNP  or  port
       8612  for BJNP on the scanner. So you will have to allow outgoing traf-
       fic TO port 8610 or 8612 on the common subnet for scanning.

       Scanner detection is slightly more complicated. The sane-pixma  backend
       sends a broadcast on all direct connected subnets it can find (provided
       your OS allows for enumeration of all network interfaces).  The  broad-
       cast  is  sent FROM port 8612 TO port 8610 or 8612 on the broadcast ad-
       dress of each interface.  The outgoing packets will be allowed  by  the
       rule described above.

       Responses  from the scanner are sent back to the computer TO port 8612.
       Connection tracking however does not see a match as the  response  does
       not  come from the broadcast address but from the scanners own address.
       For automatic detection of your scanner, you will therefore have to al-
       low  incoming  packets  TO  port 8612 on your computer. This applies to
       both MFNP and BJNP.

       So in short: open the firewall for all traffic from  your  computer  to
       port 8610 (for MFNP) or 8612 (for BJNP) AND to port 8612 (for both BJNP
       and MFNP) to your computer.

       With the firewall rules above there is no need to add  the  scanner  to
       the pixma.conf file, unless the scanner is on a network that is not di-
       rectly connected to your computer.


ENVIRONMENT

       SANE_DEBUG_PIXMA
              If the library was compiled with debug support enabled, this en-
              vironment variable controls the debug level for this backend it-
              self. Higher value increases the verbosity and includes the  in-
              formation printed at the lower levels.
              0  print nothing (default)
              1  print error and warning messages (recommended)
              2  print informational messages
              3  print debug-level messages
              4  print verbose debug-level messages
              11 dump USB traffic
              21 full dump USB traffic

       SANE_DEBUG_BJNP
              If the library was compiled with debug support enabled, this en-
              vironment variable controls the debug level  for  the  BJNP  and
              MFNP  network protocols for this backend. Higher value increases
              the verbosity and includes the information printed at the  lower
              levels.
              0 print nothing (default)
              1 Print error and warning messages (recommended)
              2 Print high level function tracing information
              3 Print more detailed protocol tracing information
              4 Print protocol headers
              5 Print full protocol contents

       PIXMA_EXPERIMENT
              Setting to a non-zero value will enable experimental support for
              further models.  You should also set SANE_DEBUG_PIXMA to 11.

       SANE_CONFIG_DIR
              This environment variable specifies the list of directories that
              may contain the configuration file.  On *NIX systems, the direc-
              tories are separated by a colon (`:'), under OS/2, they are sep-
              arated  by a semi-colon (`;').  If this variable is not set, the
              configuration file  is  searched  in  two  default  directories:
              first,  the current working directory (".") and then in /usr/lo-
              cal/etc/sane.d.  If the value of the environment  variable  ends
              with  the directory separator character, then the default direc-
              tories are searched after the explicitly specified  directories.
              For example, setting SANE_CONFIG_DIR to "/tmp/config:" would re-
              sult in directories tmp/config, ., and /usr/local/etc/sane.d be-
              ing searched (in this order).


SEE ALSO

       sane(7),  sane-dll(5),  scanimage(1),  scanadf(1),  gamma4scanimage(1),
       getifaddrs(3)

       In case of trouble with a recent Pixma model, try the latest  code  for
       the sane-pixma backend, available in the Sane git repository at:
       https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends.git

       You can also post into the Sane-devel mailing list for support.


AUTHORS

       Wittawat  Yamwong,  Nicolas  Martin,  Dennis Lou, Louis Lagendijk, Rolf
       Bensch

       We would like to thank all testers and helpers. Without them  we  could
       not  be able to write subdrivers for models we don't have. See also the
       project homepage.

                                  15 Aug 2020                    sane-pixma(5)

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