[sane-devel] the samsung scx-4200 works with the xerox mfp driver

[Michael Whapples]

This is good to hear, I suspected this might be the case some time ago 
(possibly a month or so) when I tried the xerox backend with my samsung 
CLX-3170fn. There may be some bugs for some devices, eg. when I first 
tried my CLX-3170fn the xerox backend crashed the device when the last 
page had passed through the ADF when using scanadf if you didn't inform 
it of number of pages being that of the pages available or less. This 
particular problem is corrected in git, but you never quite know what 
other devices might do.

As for the official samsung drivers, you must be joking if you would 
want to use them, they seem to be out of date by quite a bit with sane 
and don't work with the current release.

It would be good to make it more widely known that the xerox backend of 
sane supports samsung devices and should possibly be enabled for samsung 
devices by default.

May be some time samsung will realise there are opensource alternatives 
which work and so support that, rather than creating closed source linux 
drivers which they must maintain to keep up to date (which they don't 
seem to have done).

Also I will just say I am also talking as a user here.

Michael Whapples
On -10/01/37 20:59, db wrote:
> the samsung scx-4200 works with the xerox mfp backend, i suspect that
> this driver will work for other samsung's too. Perhaps it would be
> wise to make it the default (samsung's proprietary driver performs
> ugly hacks .. so as long as users can install that one if this
> fails...) then more feedback should result. At the present time there
> is little on google / anywhere on using a open source scanning driver
> (i already use splix and thats now in ubuntu).
>
> I hope that the xerox mfs backend can be turned on for samsung
> scanners .. that are out on the market atm.
> (it just worked for tm ^^).
> Yes i know there are problems with this... but... (anyways i'm just a
> subscriber to report this message its up to you guys ;) ).
>
>
>
> ->
>   cat /etc/sane.d/xerox_mfp.conf
> #xerox_mfp.conf
>
> #Dell MFP Laser Printer 1815dn
> usb 0x413c 0x5124
>
> #Xerox Phaser 6110MFP
> usb 0x0924 0x3d5d
>
> #added!
> #scx4200
> usb 0x04e8 0x341b
>
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