SANE Scanner Access Now Easy                        sane-pixma(5)



NAME
     sane-pixma - SANE backend for Canon PIXMA MP series

DESCRIPTION
     The sane-pixma library implements a SANE (Scanner Access Now
     Easy)  backend  that  provides  access to Canon PIXMA multi-
     function devices (All-in-one printers).  Currently, the fol-
     lowing models work with this backend:

          PIXMA MP150, MP160, MP170, MP180, MP450, MP460
          PIXMA MP500, MP510, MP530, MP600, MP600R
          PIXMA MP800, MP800R, MP810, MP830, MP960
          MultiPAS MP700, PIXMA MP750 (no grayscale)

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

          SmartBase MP360, MP370, MP390
          MultiPAS MP730, PIXMA MP760, PIXMA MP780

     The backend supports
     * resolutions at 75,150,300,600,1200  and  2400  DPI  (still
     buggy),
     * color and grayscale mode,
     * a custom gamma table and
     * automatic document feeder (only single side).

     The device name is in the form pixma:xxxxyyyyzzzzz where x,
     y  and z are vendor ID, product ID and serial number respec-
     tively.  Example: pixma:04A91709123456 is a MP150.

     This backend is in alpha stage and will stay in  this  stage
     until  we  get  the  programming  manual  for  the hardware.
     Although we have tested it as good as we could, it will  not
     work in every situations. You will find an up-to-date status
     at the project homepage. (See below)

OPTIONS
     Besides "well-known" options (e.g.  resolution,  mode  etc.)
     pixma  backend  also  provides  the  following  experimental
     options for button handling, i.e. the options  might  change
     in the future.

     button-controlled
          This option can be used in combination with  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  until  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



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          and so on. When you finished, press the gray-scan  but-
          ton. (For MP150 you have to stop the frontend by press-
          ing Ctrl-C for example.)

     button-update button-1 button-2
          These options are interesting for developers. To  check
          button  status:  (1) set button-1 and button-2 to zero,
          (2) set button-update (Its type is  SANETYPEBUTON.),
          (3)  get  button-1  and button-2.  If the result is not
          zero, the corresponding button was pressed.

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

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

ENVIRONMENT
     SANEDEBUGPIXMA
          If the library was compiled with debug support enabled,
          this  environment variable controls the debug level for
          this backend. Higher value increases the verbosity.

          0  print nothing (default)
          1  print error and warning messages (recommended)
          2  print informational messages
          3  print debug-level messages
          10 dump USB traffics

     PIXMAEXPERIMENT
          Setting to a non-zero value will enable the support for
          experimental    models.     You    should    also   set
          SANEDEBUGPIXMA to 10.

SEE ALSO
     sane(7), sane-dll(5), http:/home.arcor.de/wittawat/pixma/

AUTHOR
     Wittawat Yamwong

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

ATRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:






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       ATRIBUTE TYPE     ATRIBUTE VALUE 
    
     Availability         SUNWsane-backend
    
     Interface Stability  Uncommitted     
    

NOTES
     Source for SANE is available on http:/opensolaris.org.













































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