We make the following assumptions in this tutorial (you will need to adjust these to fit your situation) This tutorial will walk you through setting up printing and scanning on a Ubuntu 11.10 box, and then help you share those services on your local network, making it available to many more clients than could otherwise support this unit. And once you have this operational on a Ubuntu box, its fairly easy to share all of the units features with other computers on your network. However, with a little tweaking, the Konica-Minolta 1690MF can be made to work exceptionally well on Ubuntu. The 1690MF is marginally supported out of the box on Ubuntu. Step 4: Tell the Magicolor back end where to find the USB scanner.
Step 3: Tell the Magicolor back end where to find the network scanner.Step 1: Ensure that you have at least version 1.0.22 of sane installed.HOW TO SCAN: SANE and the Konica Minolta Magicolor 1690MF.Step 5: Add the printer on Client machines (Windows and MAC).Step 4: Add the printer on Client machines (Linux and MAC).Step 3: Add the printer as a color printer.Step 2: Add the printer as a black and white printer.
