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Scanning with Pixma MP600 hooked up to Airport Extreme
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It isn't exactly impossible, but improbable.
The driver provided by Canon is a USB-only Carbon driver (most non-postscript drivers are -exception- Brother). Apple has implemented port redirection from print drivers to the USB on the Airport Express/Extreme. Requires software hacks both on the Mac and in firmware on the Airport. That's why Apple tells us that only printing works (second paragraph):
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107418
If you could find a third party driver that would work over a network, I think scanning would work, because the Extreme/Express is capable of the standard protocol HP Jetdirect/port 9100. But that's a big if!
Here are some links to people working on this:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050604045428475
Edit - although I thought I remembered reading that they're working on a TCP/IP "backend," it looks as though it's all for USB or SCSI or firewire.
The driver provided by Canon is a USB-only Carbon driver (most non-postscript drivers are -exception- Brother). Apple has implemented port redirection from print drivers to the USB on the Airport Express/Extreme. Requires software hacks both on the Mac and in firmware on the Airport. That's why Apple tells us that only printing works (second paragraph):
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107418
If you could find a third party driver that would work over a network, I think scanning would work, because the Extreme/Express is capable of the standard protocol HP Jetdirect/port 9100. But that's a big if!
Here are some links to people working on this:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050604045428475
Edit - although I thought I remembered reading that they're working on a TCP/IP "backend," it looks as though it's all for USB or SCSI or firewire.