Im the process now of buying a scanner and it seems that anything made after 2002 is not supported :-\. For some reason I settled on a utek scanmaker 6000 but find that it too is not supported. I just took a guess at which scanner might have retained more of the old control codes waved my finger and made a purchase. Ive come to regret it. Its more cumbersome than the truly slick canoscan LIDE series. After researching I find out about the genesys backend and possible support for the lide series. Im seriously considering going back (for the second time now) to return this thing and get the canon Ive wanted all along. I mean I have a lot more hope for hardware when someone has actually photographed the chipset and said chipset is recognized by the USB subsystem. I've done a few years worth of embedded development (resident SNMP agents) and I'm not working right now so if there is someway I can help with finishing the backend for one of these scanners (well sensibly it should be the scanner I end up owning) please let me know. I need to get back into coding and could use the challenge.
Sincerely, J. Sims
