[sane-devel] scanimage -L crashes with HP ScanJet 4100c

[Peter Kirchgessner]

Seems to me that the hp-backend can do a workaround, but not worth for
daily use. Could be that the HP ScanJet 4100 C is a little bit
problematic concerning USB in certain environments. BTW, did you try to
connect the scanner directly to an USB-connector on the back of the PC ?

I am giving up here on the HP ScanJet 4100 C. Not in general, because it
is working for me on two different systems. Just for certain
USB-environments.

I have no recommendation for a scanner. At least I would look for a
scanner that supports USB 2.0. All the scanners which are supported by
the hp-backend only support USB 1.x, because USB 2.0 was not available
at that time when HP stopped the production. And USB 1.x is too slow for
 scanning color images at higher resolutions. The scanner stops, goes
back and restarts very often.

Good luck

Peter



Bill Moseley schrieb:
> On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 08:19:51PM +0100, Peter Kirchgessner wrote:
>> export SANE_HP_RDREDO=20
>> xsane hp
>>
>> This will do 20 retries (2 seconds in total) before giving up. Please
>> try if at least the xsane-GUI comes up. Maybe you then will run into an
>> I/O-error during scanning.
> 
> Yes, that seemed to help get xsane started, and yes when I try and do
> a preview it seems to take a very long time to scan, if at all.
> 
> Have any scanner recommendations? ;)
> 
> 
> Thanks for your help, Peter.
> 

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