[sane-devel] Out of Memory error when scanning at high DPI

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Alessandro Zummo <azummo-lists at towertech.it> writes:

> On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:45:11 +0900
> Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf.meeuwissen at avasys.jp> wrote:
>
>> # OK, I see.
>> # Somebody sure contributed an ugly hack just to get 4800dpi on the
>> # 4990 to work ;-{  The epson backend only uses ESC based commands,
>> # which implies that that you can't even set 4800dpi and even less
>> # so the scan area you are using and have the device behave.  The
>> # hack that went in probably shouldn't have ...
>
>  Hi Olaf,
>
>   you mean that it could be done with FS commands?

The short answer is yes.

The long answer is that it will mean a fair bit of changes to the
current epson backend because it wasn't quite designed to handle FS
commands.

Hope this helps,
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