Hello, On Apr 25 20:00 Mike McMullin wrote (shortened):
On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 12:53, Johannes Meixner wrote:
http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2000/08/jsmeix_print-kompatibel.html
Is SuSE gong to do a page like this for scanners?
In contrast to printers and the well known printer-languages I don't know enough about well known scanner-languages. For example many Epson scanners (not the low-end models) understand a Epson scanner-language, see the mail http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2004-December/012764.htm... But this is not sufficient for a SDB article about well known scanner-languages and how to buy a scanner based upon its scanner-language. All general information I know up to now is provided in http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/10/jsmeix_scanner-setup-92.html Note that it may damage a new scanner model if it is simply added to a backend config file, see the mail above: ------------------------------------------------------------------ Some scanners have bugs that need to be corrected in software (e.g. one device does not report it's max. scan area correctly ------------------------------------------------------------------ E.g. if the max. scan area is reported too wide, the driver (the backend) will try to move the scanning unit beyond the physical limits of the device which may damage the hardware. Therefore I do not mention in an unlimited public accessible SDB article how to add a new model to a backend config file.
I'd be more than happy to ask again for support from HP and point them to a similar page.
HP has free software for printers and all-in-one devices: http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2002/05/ke_hp-officejet.html http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/ It might be a ggod idea to ask there even regarding non-all-in-one scanners. The SANE project provides information how to contribute http://www.sane-project.org/contrib.html and "Information for Manufacturers" http://www.sane-project.org/manufacturers.html Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5 Mail: jsmeix@suse.de 90409 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/