{"id":210,"date":"2017-10-10T10:41:08","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T09:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philroche.net\/?p=210"},"modified":"2017-10-10T10:41:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T09:41:08","slug":"xerox-documate-3220-scanner-on-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/2017\/10\/10\/xerox-documate-3220-scanner-on-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Xerox DocuMate 3220 scanner on Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"

TLDR;<\/b> This blog post is confirming that the Xerox DocuMate 3220 does work on Ubuntu and shows how to add permissions for non root users to use it.<\/p>\n

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I was using my wife’s old printer\/scanner all in one<\/a> for scanning documents and it worked well but it was a pain to scan multiple documents so I decided to get a business scanner with auto feed and duplex scanning.<\/p>\n

I went for the Xerox DocuMate 3220<\/a> as it stated it was SANE compatible so would work on Linux.<\/p>\n

$\"DM3220_img1.jpg\"$ <\/p>\n

With an RRP of ~\u20ac310 I managed to get a refurbished model for \u20ac98 delivered from ebay but sadly I didn’t do enough research as the scanner is not SANE supported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In my research in trying to add the scanner to the xerox_mfp SANE backend config (which didn’t work) I discovered that VueScan<\/a> was available for Linux and it’s supported scanners<\/a> did list some of the Xerox DocuMate series. I had used VueScan on my old MacBook Pro and was very happy with so I gave it a shot. Note that VueScan is not Open Source and not free but it is excellent software and well worth the \u20ac25 purchase price.<\/p>\n

Lo and behold it found the scanner and it supported all of the scanner’s features.<\/p>\n

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Flatbed scanning<\/li>\n
Auto feed<\/li>\n
Duplex auto feed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
However VueScan would only detect the scanner when run as root due to libusb permissions.<\/p>\n
To add permissions for non root users to use the scanner I made the following changes. This guide should also be helpful when changing permissions for any USB device. The following changes were made on an Ubuntu 17.10 machine.<\/p>\n
# Add myself to the scanner group. You can do this through the “Users and Groups” GUI too.<\/i><\/p>\n
philroche@bomek:$ sudo usermod -a -G scanner philroche<\/pre>\n
# Find the scanner vendor id and product id<\/i><\/p>\n
Running dmesg we can see the scanner listed with idVendor=04a7 and idProduct=04bf<\/p>\n
philroche@bomek$ dmesg\nusb 1-2.4.3: new high-speed USB device number 26<\/b> using xhci_hcd\nusb 1-2.4.3: New USB device found, idVendor=04a7, idProduct=04bf<\/b>\nusb 1-2.4.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3\nusb 1-2.4.3: Product: DM3220\nusb 1-2.4.3: Manufacturer: Xerox\nusb 1-2.4.3: SerialNumber: 3ASDHC0333<\/pre>\n
Note: The device number will most likley be different on your system.<\/p>\n
Running lsusb<\/code> we can see that the scanner is also listed as “Visioneer”<\/p>\n
philroche@bomek:$ lsusb\nBus 001<\/b> Device 026<\/b>: ID 04a7:04bf Visioneer<\/b><\/pre>\nNote: As with the the device number, the Bus used is likley to be different on your system.<\/p>\nWe can see above that the device is on bus 001 as device 026. Using this info we can get full udev<\/a> (Dynamic device management) info.<\/p>\n
philroche@bomek:$ udevadm info -a -p $(udevadm info -q path -n \/dev\/bus\/usb\/001\/026)\nlooking at device '\/devices\/pci0000:00\/0000:00:14.0\/usb1\/1-2\/1-2.4\/1-2.4.3':\n KERNEL==\"1-2.4.3\"\n SUBSYSTEM==\"usb\"\n DRIVER==\"usb\"\n ATTR{authorized}==\"1\"\n ATTR{avoid_reset_quirk}==\"0\"\n ATTR{bConfigurationValue}==\"1\"\n ATTR{bDeviceClass}==\"00\"\n ATTR{bDeviceProtocol}==\"00\"\n ATTR{bDeviceSubClass}==\"00\"\n ATTR{bMaxPacketSize0}==\"64\"\n ATTR{bMaxPower}==\"0mA\"\n ATTR{bNumConfigurations}==\"1\"\n ATTR{bNumInterfaces}==\" 1\"\n ATTR{bcdDevice}==\"0001\"\n ATTR{bmAttributes}==\"c0\"\n ATTR{busnum}==\"1\"\n ATTR{configuration}==\"\"\n ATTR{devnum}==\"26\"\n ATTR{devpath}==\"2.4.3\"\n ATTR{idProduct}==\"04bf\"\n ATTR{idVendor}==\"04a7\"\n ATTR{ltm_capable}==\"no\"\n ATTR{manufacturer}==\"Xerox\"\n ATTR{maxchild}==\"0\"\n ATTR{product}==\"DM3220\"\n ATTR{quirks}==\"0x0\"\n ATTR{removable}==\"unknown\"\n ATTR{serial}==\"3ASDHC0333\"\n ATTR{speed}==\"480\"\n ATTR{urbnum}==\"1251\"\n ATTR{version}==\" 2.00\"<\/pre>\n
This is the info we need to create our udev rule<\/p>\n
# Add Udev rules allowing non root users access to the scanner<\/i><\/p>\n
Create a new udev rule<\/p>\n
philroche@bomek:$ sudo nano \/etc\/udev\/rules.d\/71-xeroxdocument3220.rules<\/pre>\n
Paste the following text to that new file<\/p>\n
SUBSYSTEM==\"usb\", ATTR{manufacturer}==\"Xerox\", ATTR{product}==\"DM3220\", ATTR{idVendor}==\"04a7\", ATTR{idProduct}==\"04bf\", MODE=\"0666\", GROUP=\"scanner\"<\/pre>\n
This adds a rule to allow any user in the “scanner” group (which we added ourselves to earlier) permission to use the usb device with vendor 04a7 and product 04bf.<\/p>\n
Note you will have to log out and log in for any group changes to take effect or run su - $USER<\/code><\/p>\n
# Reload the udev rules<\/i><\/p>\n
philroche@bomek:$ sudo udevadm control --reload-rules<\/pre>\n# Test these new udev rules<\/i><\/p>\n philroche@bomek:$ udevadm test $(udevadm info -q path -n \/dev\/bus\/usb\/001\/026)<\/pre>\nYou shouldn’t see any permissions related errors.<\/p>\n Now when you run VueScan as a non-root user you should see no permissions errors.<\/p>\n # Start VueScan<\/i><\/p>\n philroche@bomek:$ .\/vuescan<\/pre>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Confirmation that the\u00a0Xerox DocuMate 3220 does work on Ubuntu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,13,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.philroche.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}