I have got the canon pixma printer/scanner , tried installing drivers from cd, it didn't work, from canon website, i couldn't install , xsane doesn't see the scanner , however the printer is working. any solution for fixing this? thank you
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If you have installed the drivers from Canon, the ScanGear application is there too, and that's all you need.
Run scangearmp. That command can be added into a .desktop file, like so.
It can be run from within Gimp, but scanning is not dependent on that.
