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Re: [LUG] Canon MG6450 - unsupported printer?

 


On 17 Feb 2014 22:49, "Simon Waters" <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 17/02/14 18:20, Grant Phillips-Sewell wrote:
> >
> > Whilst there, however, I did also notice these, which may be more useful
> > for you:
> > MG6400 series IJ Printer Driver Ver. 4.00 for Linux (debian Package archive)
> > http://preview.tinyurl.com/otqyl9u
>
> Excellent, clearly I can't see for looking.
>
> Seems to work fine in Debian 7.
>

One thing I should mention - it would seem that it uses the same 'scangear' software for scanning as our MP280. This didn't seem to work unless you either run it as root (or sudo it) or play around with permissions of files that shouldn't need changing. It doesn't seem to play nicely with SANE.

Grant

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