Brother MFC-410CN scan over network excruciatingly slow

[Alex Peters]

Binary package hint: simple-scan

I have raised this bug against the simple-scan package, but suspect that this is a SANE problem (and am unsure of the SANE package against which it should be filed).

My Brother MFC-410CN is set up as a network printer/scanner. Simple Scan correctly detects the scanner on the network, but takes in excess of ten minutes to scan a single A4-sized area at 300 dpi.

I don't believe the network itself to be the bottleneck, since hundreds of megabytes can be transferred between computers in a similar timeframe.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: simple-scan 2.32.0.1-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jun 11 22:14:31 2011
DriverPackageVersions:
 libsane 1.0.22-2ubuntu1
 libsane-extras N/A
 hplip 3.11.1-2ubuntu2
 hpoj N/A
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
MachineType: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. G31M-S2L
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=89de61f8-b854-4250-bc5f-665428596b33 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: simple-scan
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 06/05/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: F6
dmi.board.name: G31M-S2L
dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF6:bd06/05/2008:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnG31M-S2L:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnG31M-S2L:rvr:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: G31M-S2L
dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.

[bash321 (bash321)]

same problem on samsung clx 3175fn over the network it takes forever!!!! It is not slow though on xsane???? I don't know why this is the case.

[Michael Nagel (nailor)]

Alex Peters, could you try it using xsane?

[bash321 (bash321)]

re >>>
same problem on samsung clx 3175fn over the network it takes forever!!!! It is not slow though on xsane???? I don't know why this is the case.

same problem also with simple scan on precise pangolin. xsane i am guessing is fast on 12.04 as it was fast on 11.10.

[David Schneider (dnschneid)]

I'm having the same issue with my networked Brother MFC 440CN.

B&W scanning is very fast with Simple Scan, but color takes forever (even at 300dpi setting). It seems that Simple Scan is setting the scanner to scan at the highest quality regardless of the DPI setting for color, and it's causing the scanner to move the scan head back and forth as it scans along.

XSane doesn't have this problem.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for Simple Scan because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for simple-scan (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]