[sane-devel] HP ScanJet 5590 ADF doesn't scan legal size

m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 11 17:36:11 UTC 2011


I am not sure it is the same with the 5590, but with fujitsu backend, I had
the same problem. The solution was to maintain two internal lists of maximum
scan sizes, and switch them when the user changes between ADF and flatbed.

allan

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Juanito Hunter
<tshunter001 at yahoo.com.mx>wrote:

> Ilia:
>
> Thanks for your quick reply.
>
> I attach the screen showing options, the scan result, etc.  The obvious
> thing is that the size shows 8.50 x 11.72 inches, which is the size of the
> flat bed.  I am scanning Mexican legal size, which is 8.50 x 13.25 inches.
> (U.S. legal is 8.50 x 14 inches - don't ask me why the difference).  Both
> legal sizes have worked with Windows XP and the HP driver.
>
> I am running OpenSuse 11.1, XSANE 0.995 5590:002 as you can see in the
> image.
>
> Juanito
>
> ***********************************************
>
> --- El *lun 10-ene-11, Ilia Sotnikov <hostcc at gmail.com>* escribió:
>
>
> De: Ilia Sotnikov <hostcc at gmail.com>
> Asunto: Re: [sane-devel] HP ScanJet 5590 ADF doesn't scan legal size
> A: "Juanito Hunter" <tshunter001 at yahoo.com.mx>
> Cc: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Fecha: lunes, 10 de enero de 2011, 14:54
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Juanito Hunter
> <tshunter001 at yahoo.com.mx <http://mc/compose?to=tshunter001@yahoo.com.mx>>
> wrote:
> >
> > I am in the process of converting completely to Linux.  With Windows, I
> have used the ADF of the HP Scanjet 5590 almost exclusively for scanning
> legal-size, but SANE appears to be restricted to the flatbed scan area.  Am
> I wrong?  Is there a fix?
>
> Juanito,
> could you please provide more details: which frontend you're using,
> its options (relevant ones), what defects you see, error messages etc?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> --
>  Ilia Sotnikov
>
>
>
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