cannon bjc4400 printer - setup for is-22 scanner cartridge
 

I have a cannon bjc4400 printer with a removable scanner cartridge. It worked in windows, now I want to use it to scan documents with linux. I checked the cannon web site and only the windows driver for the scanner is available. Is it possible to use the windows driver with wine or is there a printer driver wrapper similar to the wrapper used for wireless nics? I would prefer native linux, but I am not sure how to set up a typical scanner.

I have never seen any kind of wrapper script for scanner drivers. I have seen the question asked, but no responses.

I had a similar situation. I installed v-box, and win XP, and installed the scanner on that. I set up samba and XP for sharing so it is easy to copy the scans into my linux system. You could use any flavour of winbloze you have.

I have a HP G4010. Form the time I purchased it, until a native backend showed up was about one year. If it is a popular scanner, the odds are it will show up sooner.

I looked at sane for supported scanners and under canon they don't even list the one you have.

I like the solution you described for your printer/scanner. The cannon printer uses the parallel cable, so if I go the virtualbox route, would the native linux box have to provide services for the scanner, or is the parallel port communication handled by virtualbox directly?

The linux system supports the hardware directly. So to support the parallel port you need parport and parport_pc drivers loaded. In V-box you can configure what device(s) are in use by v-box.

When v-box is using a device, the linux system can not use it. To answer your question, the linux system does provide the services required, v-box does not access it directly.

I did a search on Parallel port support for v-box, and found this.

-->https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewto...=51246#p234785