Canon MG5520 wireless printer

Louis Lagendijk louis at fazant.net
Fri Oct 10 09:52:42 UTC 2014


On Fri, 2014-10-10 at 19:47 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> On 10/09/2014 08:43 AM, Louis Lagendijk wrote:
> > On Thu, 2014-10-09 at 08:23 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> >
> >> the device, it just all happened automatically. As a side issue to this,
> >> the Canon supplied drivers also provided the facility to wirelessly scan
> >> to the computer with the device as well.
> > And so does sane  with the pixma backend: it also supports a bjnp
> > -protocol (but scanning uses port 8612)
> > Kind regards, Louis
> I couldn't figure out how to get sane to wirelessly scan until I got the 
> canon driver for scanning, and then that driver automatically appear in 
> Sane's/Xsane's list of drivers to scan with.
Did you open port 8612 UDP on the firewall? Sane can not do that for
you, neither can cups-bjnp open port 8611 UDP
regards,
Louis



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