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Re: Howto find the Agfa SnapScan 1212p



--- Donald Spoon <dspoon@astcomm.net> wrote:
> Joris Huizer wrote:
> > Hello Everybody,
> > 
> > I have got this problem: I have an  Agfa  SnapScan
> > 1212p scanner - but I don't know how to make
> Debian
> > woody see and communicate with it.
> > 
> > I did a small search on "Linux Agfa SnapScan 1212"
> > with few results.
> > 
> > Can anybody tell me what I should do to get Linux
> to
> > work with the scanner ?
> > 
> > Thanks for any help,
> > 
> > Joris Huizer
> > 
> 
> I took a quick look, and it looks like that
> particular scanner is a 
> parallel-port model that uses a "proprietary"
> protocol.  AGFA will not 
> release any specs, so there is no Linux support
> under SANE it appears. 
> Here is the site I was looking at:
> 
> http://www.buzzard.org.uk/jonathan/scanners.html
> 
> You might want to poke around the SANE home pages,
> especially under the 
> supported scanners pages, but it doesn't look
> good....
> 
> Cheers,
> -Don Spoon-
> 

Hello Don Spoon,

I had a look at SANE, but indeed, the scanner isn't
even listed so I guess there is really no support :-(

Well, thanks for the help,

Joris Huizer

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