<div dir="ltr"><div>'epjitsu' backend, in this case.</div><div><br></div><div>allan<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 12:52 PM Ralph Little <<a href="mailto:skelband@gmail.com">skelband@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 9:02 AM m. allan noah <<a href="mailto:kitno455@gmail.com" target="_blank">kitno455@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>An easier mechanism might be to comment out all the backends you are not using in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf</div><div><br></div><div>allan<br></div></div><br></blockquote><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 11:54 AM Felix E. Klee <<a href="mailto:felix.klee@inka.de" target="_blank">felix.klee@inka.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Ralph Little <<a href="mailto:skelband@gmail.com" target="_blank">skelband@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
> If you don't specify the scanner to scanimage with the -d option, then<br>
> it will poll around all the backends to obtain a list of the available<br>
> scanners first. This typically can take quite a good few seconds.<br>
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This is the explanation, thanks! Glad I asked. Now this is fun:<br>
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scanimage -o out.png -d "epjitsu:libusb:003:007" --resolution 200dpi<br>
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:D</blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div>I concur. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Since you have a USB
connection, the device name is likely to change every time you power
cycle the scanner as the USB subsystem will assign a different address.
Leaving only the fujitsu backend available in the dll.conf file, the
startup delay will be next to nothing.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Ralph<br></div><div><br><br></div> </div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">"well, I stand up next to a mountain- and I chop it down with the edge of my hand"</div>