Hello everyone,
I have been trying to make my Canon pixma mp160 all in one printer scan some documents so that I have a digital form of them, doesn't really matter what I wanted to scan, but was unable to get it to work, I have tried some things, but got stuck,here's what I already tried and what info I have to give, if you need anything else feel free to ask. I use the KDE DE and am on a stable branch of Manjaro.
I've tried using xsane, Skanlite and xsane through gimp plugin, and the epson iscan thing, none of them can scan, the error I get is "scan canceled" in all but in iscan which says "can't send command to scanner"
The printer is detected using lsusb command:
Summary
$ lsusb Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 009 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 002 Device 002: ID 2001:3311 D-Link Corp. Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 001 Device 008: ID 04a9:1714 Canon, Inc. MP160 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 006 Device 003: ID 04d9:a09e Holtek Semiconductor, Inc. Bus 006 Device 002: ID 0c45:8603 Microdia Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 004 Device 002: ID 0480:a200 Toshiba America Inc Bus 004 Device 003: ID 125f:db8a A-DATA Technology Co., Ltd. Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
and scanimage -L also says:
$ scanimage -L
device `pixma:04A91714_F37B47' is a CANON Canon PIXMA MP160 multi-function peripheral
and the printer is also detected in settings/hardware/printers:
It says it's using a generic driver, should I try using a different one? there isn't any canon drivers available in there, but I don't know.
Also I checked the AUR and there are drivers for a couple of series of pixma devices, but not MP160, so I haven't yet tried that, I could try using the next available series (MP230) and see if it works, but I would rather ask here first to see if anyone else had a similar issue and if they managed to find a fix for it.
Anyway, it's not vital that I manage to make it work, but it would be very handy, and before anyone says anything, I know it's an ancient machine, but since it's for personal use, and not a "must have" getting a different one is not an option, it's either making this one run or nothing.
Feel free to ask for any additional info, and thank you to anyone who reads the topic even if you have no ideas on how to fix it.
