[sane-devel] Registered user "allan-guest" HP scanner interface troubles.

[m. allan noah]

oops- forgot to include sane-devel on this reply...

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 8:49 PM, m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:
> your distro must include the hp_rts88xx backend with sane, as that is
>  listed as only supporting 300dpi Gray on that scanner. recently, the
>  new rts8891 backend was added to sane, and it is listed as supporting
>  more features of that machine. you need to upgrade to a recent sane
>  cvs snapshot, either from source, or perhaps your OS vendor has some
>  testing package you can use.
>
>  allan
>
>
>
>  On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Allan Topp <atopp at ncf.ca> wrote:
>  > I really (that is REALLY) want to get off my Windows PC and use Linux
>  >  exclusively.
>  >
>  >  My last obstacle is scanning.
>  >
>  >  I am using ubuntu 6.06, Xsane 0.97 and an HP 4470C scanner.
>  >
>  >  Despite the scanner not being listed as supported it works just fine.
>  >  Except it will only scan 300 dpi gray scale.  The pull downs for both
>  >  are not there.
>  >
>  >  Does anyone have a work around for this?  Or ...?
>  >
>  >  TIA
>  >
>  >  Allan
>  >
>  >
>  >
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