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Re: [LUG] Canon MG6450 - unsupported printer?

 

On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 22:54:16 +0000
Grant Phillips-Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Grant,

>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

In the past, when I've had problems using a scanner, it was because the
user wasn't part of the scanner group(1).  Maybe that's your problem?

(1)  Always happened if a scanner was *not* connected to the 'puter when
installing an OS for the first time.

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