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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] linux-compatible scanners in Ottawa ?

  • Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] linux-compatible scanners in Ottawa ?
  • From: Martin Hicks <mort [ at ] bork [ dot ] org>
  • Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:10:31 -0400
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 12:59:38PM -0400, Adrian Irving-Beer wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 12:50:10PM -0400, Brett Delmage wrote:
> 
> > I've been looking at the SuSE and SANE sites and docs. There's some
> > contradictory information on the status of Canan LIDE35 and LIDE50
> > back-ends. Does anyone have one of these scanners working, and if
> > so, how well?
> 
> My LiDE 30 works perfectly, except that those buttons on the scanner
> itself (scan, copy, e-mail) don't do anything.  They're probably just
> supposed to launch apps in Windows anyway, like the also-useless
> "quick back-up" button on my USB hard drives.
> 
> I got it at Staples in the South Keys mall.  Printed out the long list
> of SANE-compatible scanners and compared each available model to it.
> Couldn't beat the price.

I've got a lide50 and it works fine with sane using the libusb/usbfs
interface (i.e., what SANE uses for usb scanners)

mh

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