scanning with a Pantum M6600

[Geoff Shang]

On Thu, 13 Jun 2019, Shlomo Solomon wrote:

> I have a Pantum M6600 multifunction printer - USB only - no WiFi.
>
> Printing works fine on my Kubuntu box (after installing a driver).
>
> I can also scan using xsane or gscantopdf.
>
> But when I press the physical scan button on the printer, I get a
> message on the printer's LCD screen: "PC unresponsive". I assume it's
> "looking for" a Windows PC. In fact, when I connect it to a Windows
> machine, the scan works and is saved in D:\Users\solomon\Pictures.
>
> Does anyone have an idea how to get this to work on Linux?

A quick search suggests that scanbd is what you need.

http://scanbd.sf.net/

There's a Debian package, so I'm guessing there's a Ubuntu one too.

HTH,
Geoff.