dear martin,thank you for your answer. the canon company has the appropriate linux-software, which i installed and which is working like a charm.
my problem is still the lack of (x)sane_backend_software: allthough i tried hard i did not yet succeed in making the mp280_scanner work together with (x)sane or the gimp (&&)
why the mp 280?: well: somebody gave me that printer and during the proces of atarting the thing up with appropriate help from some of the list_members i refreshed, as a long time debian_user, my knowledge.
nochmals, vielen Dank, steef groningen, holland Martin Steigerwald wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 23. Mai 2012 schrieb steef:dear all, just a small question: has somebody an experience with the 'canon pixma mp 280 printer' under debian; (cups) ? a very cheap and compact printer so i am told.I always look at OpenPrinting database first¹. MP250 seems to be closest match², but beware, maybe the 280 is related to some other MP model and there are some which are classified as paperweight. [1] http://www.openprinting.org/printers [2] http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Canon/Canon-PIXMA_MP250