Sane & Simple Scan do not recognise Networked Samsung SCX-4729FD Scanner

[John Rose]

Sane & Simple Scan do not recognise Networked Samsung SCX-4729FD printer scanner. I have assumed that this is a fault with xsane. The printer prints OK. I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit desktop. Relevant package details are:
john@Desktop:~$ apt-cache policy xsane
xsane:
  Installed: 0.998-5ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.998-5ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.998-5ubuntu1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
john@Desktop:~$ apt-cache policy simple-scan
simple-scan:
  Installed: 3.12.3-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 3.12.3-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 3.12.3-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.12.0-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
john@Desktop:~$ apt-cache policy sane
sane:
  Installed: 1.0.14-9
  Candidate: 1.0.14-9
  Version table:
 *** 1.0.14-9 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: xsane 0.998-5ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-86.130-generic 3.13.11-ckt39
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-86-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.19
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon May 16 09:43:12 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-25 (751 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
SourcePackage: xsane
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[penalvch (penalvch)]

John Rose, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better.

To see if this is already resolved, could you please test http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ and advise to the results?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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