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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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