[sane-devel] Fujitsu backend questions

[Oliver Schirrmeister]

Am Montag, 15. November 2004 17:53 schrieb Mattias Kregert:
> Hello list,
>
> I have some questions about my fujitsu FI-4120C... (using the fujitsu
> backend):
>
> - The scanner lamp is always on. From what I have heard, that is a Bad
> Thing because it will shorten the lamp's lifetime... If this is correct,
> then how can I turn off the lamp? Is there some magic hidden command to do
> that?

There is an option 'sleeptimer'. I think it's the time in minutes(?) until the
lamp is turned off. I've not tried it with the 4120.

> - Is there some way to make the scanner recognize the physical papersize
> and scan only that size? Right now I have to select between A4 / A5 paper
> format... If i use A4 then i know that the whole paper will always be
> scanned.. but if i scan a lot of A5 then i want to scan only A5 because it
> it twice as fast as A4.... now when i mix A4 and the smaller A5, I have to
> change settings all the time...   If I use adfscan then I have to set it to
> A4 (the largest format) but then i loose a lot of speed... A
> 'papersize=auto' feature would be nice... is there some way to do this with
> the current backend?

I don't know about the 4120, but the big brothers of that scanner are able to 
do a paper length detection. It works fine with TWAIN but I've not 
implemented it in SANE, yet. 

-- Oliver