Re: scanners
On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Keith wrote:
> Yes scanners do work on Linux.
Unfortunately not all of them. I have a cheap ColorHand scanner from
Primax, ant is not supported by Linux. I have written to Primax to ask
them for specification necessary for writing a driver. A was very
surprised, that I'vo got on answer. However after I wrote them that the
driver for Linux should be the Open Source software, so there is no way to
sign any NDA, they didn't answer any more...
Wojtek Zabolotny
wzab@ipe.pw.edu.pl
> scsi card and it works great and it is easy to setup using SANE to control
> the scanner. Mustek is not what I consider a great scanner but it is the
> only one I have set up under Linux. Here is the url for SANE
> http://www.mostang.com/sane/.
>
> Keith
>
> ----------
> > From: Rick Knebel <rknebel@rknebel.csrlink.net>
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: scanners
> > Date: Saturday, September 12, 1998 10:11 AM
> >
> > Can anyone tell me if scanners work with linux and if so make a
> > reccomendation.
> >
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