Ways to Count a Printer With a Built in Scanner as a Scanner for WIA

Question

I am currently working with some OMR software that will take and scan sheets from a scanner, and then write their information to a text file. For getting available local scanners, I am using WIA; to get these scanners, I would use some bit of code like

public List<ScannerInfo> GetWiaDevices()
{
    WIA.DeviceManager mgr = new WIA.DeviceManager();
    List<ScannerInfo> retVal = new List<ScannerInfo>();

    foreach (WIA.DeviceInfo info in mgr.DeviceInfos)
    {

        if (info.Type == WIA.WiaDeviceType.ScannerDeviceType)
        {
            foreach (WIA.Property p in info.Properties)
            {

                if (p.Name == "Name")
                    retVal.Add(new ScannerInfo(((WIA.IProperty)p).get_Value().ToString(), info.DeviceID));
            }

        }

    }
    return retVal;

}

Now, I am working with something that is technically a printer (and that Windows reads as a printer) -- the Konica Minolta Bizhub 282, I believe. Unfortunately, if (info.Type == WIA.WiaDeviceType.ScannerDeviceType) doesn't recognize printers with built in scanners as scanners, so when I run this code checking for local scanners, the printer doesn't show up.

Is there a way to make printers with built-in scanners show up on the list, and furthermore, to make them usable as scanners in C#? Thanks for your time!

Printers with built in scanners are technically TWO devices and require TWO drivers, not one. — Señor CMasMas
@SeñorCMasMas oh wow, that's good to know! Do you have any idea how I might get both drivers? — Simon Ward

Señor CMasMas Señor CMasMas · Accepted Answer · 2020-01-07T16:54:11

It doesn't look like this printer has a scanner that will show up as a twain or WIA source.

There certainly are no drivers on the Minolta site for it (only PCLx and PostScript Print Drivers).

The way this scanner works is to use a SMB network share setup by your IT admin. The printer will dump scanned documents there after it is configured properly.

You can read about it here .

If I somehow missed something.. (I don't think I did), ALL of the manuals for that printer are here

Ways to Count a Printer With a Built in Scanner as a Scanner for WIA

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