[sane-devel] Hello list. [HP ScanJet 5550c]

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 02:09:39PM +0200, Jonas Widarsson wrote:
> I have one HP ScanJet 5550c scanner here at the office that only works for my 
> colleagues with Windows XP and Mac OS X.
> 
> It has an ADF (extremely important in my case) and looks like this:
> http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF05a/15179-64195-215155-15202-215155-77360.html
> 
> This scanner doesn't seem to be reported/supported/worked on.
> Am I wrong? 

Yes:
http://www.sane-project.org/cgi-bin/driver.pl?manu=hew&model=5550&bus=any

> I am unexperienced with the C language but have been programming for five 
> years at work (mainly PHP nowadays but also a little C++). However, if this 
> scanner is somewhat similar to other scanners with series numbers close to 
> 55xx, maybe I can help out converting a similar backend and testing/patching 
> to make this scanner supported. I don't think I can write one from scratch. I 
> have no experience from this kind of development before (hardware drivers for 
> linux).
> 
> If such a development process is already going on for this scanner, I'd love 
> to help sending test reports and such.

Search the sane-devel mailing list archive for "genesys" and gl841. 

> I guess I should attach the sane-find-scanner -v -v but first I'd like to know 
> if it is necessary.

Yes, please, especially if you have a recent installation of SANE
(1.0.15).

Bye,
  Henning