[sane-devel] Epson Perfection V700 Photo

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Karl Heinz Kremer <khk at khk.net> writes:

> I can confirm your hunch, the V700/V750 scanners do use the ESC/I
> protocol, and from what I know (I have not seen one yet) about these
> scanners, chances are pretty good that they will work the current
> version of the EPSON backend. You do need to add the USB information
> to the epson.desc file as Olaf indicates.

Or just stick it in epson.conf, like so:

  usb 0x04b8 0x012c

> Karl Heinz
>
>
> On May 15, 2006, at 6:05 PM, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>
>> Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning at meier-geinitz.de> writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 2006-05-10 10:50, Fredrik Sandstrom wrote:
>>>> I'm considering buying the scanner of the Subject line, but it seems
>>>> it's not (yet?) supported by any SANE backend. What's its status,
>>>> has
>>>> anyone tried it, and can it be expected to be supported soon?
>>>
>>> As it's not in our list, nobody has reported anything about it. So we
>>> don't know. If it's compatible to some alsready supported
>>> scanners, it
>>> may be easy to support it. If it's a completely new scanner with a
>>> new
>>> chip set, this means developing a new backend. This is up to a
>>> user of
>>> such scanners. Usually, it won't be done by any of the current SANE
>>> developers.
>>
>> I have a "hunch" that this scanner speaks the ESC/I protocol.  Try
>> adding the USB device info directly to the epson.conf file but don't
>> blame me if that breaks your scanner.
>>
>> If anyone can make a USB log from the Windows driver available I
>> should be able to tell whether the Perfection V700 speaks ESC/I or
>> not.
>>
>> Hope this helps,

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