[sane-devel] genesys backend update

[Jack McGill]

Stef and Pierre,
Good work! I have an XP200 and it seems to be working well. I don't have another XP300 to test out.

Jack McGill


--- On Sun, 2/8/09, Pierre Willenbrock <pierre at pirsoft.dnsalias.org> wrote:

> From: Pierre Willenbrock <pierre at pirsoft.dnsalias.org>
> Subject: Re: [sane-devel] genesys backend update
> To: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Date: Sunday, February 8, 2009, 12:30 PM
> Hello,
> 
> stef schrieb:
> > 	the genesys backend as been updated. Thanks to an
> hardware donation of Jack 
> > McGill, there is now support for the sheet-fed
> Visioneer Strobe XP200. It can 
> > scan at 75, 100, 200, 300 and 600 dpi in color or gray
> and at 8 or 16 bits. 
> > Scans are uncalibrated, ie there is no shading nor
> gain calibration. The next 
> > step is to add calibration which use an external sheet
> with printed patterns. 
> 
> update time again, this time it is the sheet-fed Visioneer
> Strobe XP300,
> thanks to a hardware donation of Jack McGill. What stef
> said pretty much
> applies to the XP300, too, but the XP300 is a duplex
> scanner, so there
> are additional caveats. Front- and back side are currently
> output
> side-by-side, with the back side mirrored horizontally,
> shifted
> downwards relative to the front side. Currently, the
> scanner essentially
> behaves like having a double-width sensor.
> 
> Regards,
>   Pierre
> 
> PS1: don't try to test this on current cvs -- at least
> for me, it
> creates libsane-*.so.0.1.0, instead of libsane-*.so.1.1.0.
> PS2: Sorry Jack, but the XP300 was far more interesting
> than the
> Roadwarrior ;-) -- i am working on it.
> 
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