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The Canon Pixma MG2450 printer has an integrated scanner that should work with a tool like Simple Scan (or xsane or Skanlite).

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There are two sets of drivers (provided by Canon as deb files): two drivers for the printer (cnijfilter-commonand cnijfilter-mg2400series) and two for the scanner (scangearmp-common and scangearmp-mg2400series). All drivers can be installed just fine, the printer works, but the scanner is not detected.

As seen here, the Canon Pixma 2400 series is supported.

How can I use this 2 in 1 scanner / printer?

I have tried to use Xubuntu, Kubuntu and Lubuntu, eOS and Mint, and got the same negative results.

Note that the scanner works in Windows.

How can I get it working?

  • Which Ubuntu version? – cat Jan 20 '16 at 23:30
  • Have you checked the system logs for anything suspicious? – cat Jan 20 '16 at 23:31
  • Have you done `dpkg -L scangearmp-common;dpkg -L scangearmp-mg2400series` and read the interesting files? – waltinator Jan 21 '16 at 02:05
  • @waltinator - reading such files is beyond my skill. I just want to know if I could make it work or not, I'm a user that reads a lot, but not used "reading" system files –  Jan 21 '16 at 16:07
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    **Please comment before down-voting, in order to help me correct what is amiss** –  Jan 21 '16 at 16:16
  • @cat - 14.04 kubuntu; It is beyond my skill inding if anything is suspicious or not, beyond what I reported. I just want to know if this scanner is supported or not to keep trying or give up –  Jan 21 '16 at 16:19
  • @cipricus [that's not why I downvoted.](http://meta.unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3867/is-this-cross-post-against-site-rules) – cat Jan 21 '16 at 16:32
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    @cat - You just prove U&L is against cross-posting. [Not askubuntu.](http://meta.askubuntu.com/a/6032/47206). Posting on U&L was useless for me so I posted here. Down vote me there not here. On second thoughts don't do it, as I'll delete that question there after the bounty expires :) –  Jan 21 '16 at 16:44
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    @cipricus every site on SE is against cross-posting. That is mentioned in various places on [the main meta](http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/64068/203101) and that includes AU. U&L is more strict than most but pretty much every site is against it. That said, your question on U&L mentions other distros and has more detail and, as I explained in [my answer](http://meta.unix.stackexchange.com/a/3870/22222) on the relevant meta post, doesn't really qualify as cross-posting. – terdon Jan 25 '16 at 11:13
  • @terdon - great, I'll keep them both for the moment then., and maybe delete one of them when I get a good answer on the other. In fact I'll even test with something like Manjaro and post results in the U&L question. –  Jan 25 '16 at 11:16
  • @cat - please look at tendon's comment saying it's not a crossposting –  Jan 25 '16 at 11:17

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The drivers already mentioned in the question are just fine, only they cannot be used with the Simple San or Xsane tools, but they install a tool called ScanGear that can be launched with the command scangearmp.

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Outputs: png, pdf, pnm.

To add a .desktop launcher for that:

sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/scan.desktop

and paste this:

[Desktop Entry]
Categories=Graphics;Scanning;
Exec=scangearmp
Icon=scanner
Name=Scan
Type=Application

The same can be used within Gimp: File/Create/ScanGear MP, but ScanGear does not need Gimp in order to work.

Sources are linked in my other answer.

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I suggest adding the SANE daily build ppa to your system and updating. This gained functionality of a Canon multifunction printer/scanner on our system in xsane. Everything works except the document feeder, which I have posted a separate question about. If Canon provides scangearmp2 for your printer, does that work? It works on our system, including document feeder, but has a limited feature set compared to xsane.

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  • When you run `xsane` what error message / popup do you get? Also, are you using the scanner over a LAN or via USB? – Organic Marble Jan 21 '16 at 17:09
  • Scangear2 for our MB2320 can be found here https://www.usa.canon.com/internet/portal/us/home/support/details/printers/small-office-home-office-printers/mb2320 – Organic Marble Jan 21 '16 at 17:49
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    After solving it I understand what you mean. **The scanner driver from Cannon comes with a separate GUI application called *ScanGear***. One doesn't need Xsane or Simple Scan, nor Gimp as some say to use that, although it can be run from Gimp. It can be run simply as `scangearmp` in my case. - Adding Sane daily ppa is a very bad idea in my case it gave me dependency problems, I had to remove it to get back my old version and be able to use the driver that I already had but didn't knew how to use. –  Jan 25 '16 at 14:45