[sane-devel] Fwd: New Scanner Purchase .....

[James]

I always check printers and scanners, etc. for Linux support before I buy
them. :-)

A good rule of thumb is not to buy something recent.

Btw, someone is maybe going to add support for that scanner since it is a
new Genesys chip and the specs are available.


On Tue, June 24, 2008 1:37 pm, Skorous wrote:
> < embarrased > Apologies to Chuck, I hit the wrong respond button. <
> /embarrased >
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>
> Marty
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Skorous <skorous at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 1:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [sane-devel] New Scanner Purchase .....
> To: chuck brigermann <co2 at lenoxlaser.com>
>
>
>
> My grandmother always said, "God helps those who help themselves."   ;-)
>
>
> Being serious for a moment, this is not HP tech support. If HP doesn't
> provide a driver ( I don't know if they do or not, I didn't look ) then
> _someone_ has to write one. And many of these companies aren't
> forthcoming with design specs. This means someone has to by the equipment,
> reverse engineer the protocol, then write the software. Keep in mind that
> these people are _not_ employed by HP to do this. If you really need
> support for this scanner and no one in the development community has
> written one, then you need to complain to HP. However, this is just my
> $.02.
>
>
> Marty
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 12:50 PM, chuck brigermann <co2 at lenoxlaser.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I've been following this thread from the beginning shown below.  I
>> only recently got involved with Linux as part of a work project to
>> determine if it was a suitable replacement for Windows on some of our
>> computers.  I also decided to try it on my three home computers. After
>> investigating a number of distributions, I decided against it because of
>> connectivity problems with our network, and at home I had a lot of
>> trouble using a dialup modem.
>>
>> While reading a book on current hardware, I noticed the author highly
>> recommended Xandros.  I hadn't tried it so  I purchased their
>> professional version to test.  It worked wonderful.  Very user friendly,
>> which is important to desktop users without computer skills.  Also, no
>> network or modem problems.
>>
>> I now have Xandros on seven systems at work and all three of my home
>> systems.  This brings us to my current disappointment.  First, I sent two
>> e-mails to this forum about HP4890 support without a single response.
>> Now I see this overall support issue is pretty widespread.
>> Without a reasonable support structure for peripheral devices,
>> printers included along with scanners, Linux is never going to be a
>> mainstream OS.  Some people may say that's just fine, but then this
>> superb distribution of software is lost on a small number of people.
>> Many of the packages that are available with Linux are far better
>> than their Windows counterparts - and they're free.
>>
>> Please, please don't ask me to buy another scanner when I have a
>> top-of-the-line HP scanner and there's no support for it.  HP is one of
>> the world leaders in scanning equipment, and this type of hardware is
>> widespread and needs to be supported.
>>
>> Chuck Brigermann
>>
>>
>> ---- Original Message ----
>> From: petercmx at gmail.com
>> To: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
>> Subject: [sane-devel] New Scanner Purchase .....
>> Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:29:33 +0700
>>
>>
>>> My HP Scanjet 3970 is on its way out .....  I would like to
>>> replace with another HP and I have just been comparing the HP Scanjet
>>> current models (from the HP site) with what is and what is not
>>> supported in Sane.  It appears that more or less everything is not
>>> supported.  This I find very surprising and so I was wondering if I had
>>> missed the point somewhere?<br> <br>
>>> I would like to use either a Scanjet G4010 or a G4050 but since both
>>> are unsupported (in common with the rest of the current scanners) I am
>>> very reluctant to buy and see what happens.<br> <br>
>>> Could anyone please tell me if I have got this wrong or is there
>>> another way round this?<br> <br>
>>> <br>
>>> </body>
>>> </html>
>>>
>>>
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