On November 2, 2005 12:56, Oliver Schwartz wrote: > Hi, > > > I have a chance to pick up a used AGFA Snapscan 1212U from a friend > > (he moved to XP and it's not supported, and gives dire warnings > > against trying). > > > > I see that the support on both the current stable version and the > > dev version is marked as "good". Is there any important features > > known to be missing that stop it from being marked "complete"? Or > > is it just because "complete" is hard to achieve/prove (I saw the > > recent thread on the definitions of "good" and "complete")? > > > > Any particular positive or negatives experiences? > > There have been no reports from users for the 1212U in recent month, > so I assume it works ok ;-) > > The maximum resolution for this scanner supported by the snapscan > backend is 600 DPI, which is the optical resolution. As far as I know > the stepper driver of the scanner supports 1200 DPI, so theoretically > it's possible to have a resolution of 600x1200 DPI, but currently > that's not implemented. > > There also is one open bug report for the 1212U: > http://alioth.debian.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=300657&group_id= >30186&atid=410366 However, I never got any details so this bug is not likely > to be fixed (if it really is a bug). > > Once these two issues are solved I may be tempted to even change the > status to "complete" ;-) > > /Oliver
Sounds good. I'm sure 600dpi will suffice for my purposes (mostly a way to photocopy small numbers of pages, instead of running out to find a real copier - I'm a telecommuter). Thanks. -- Ron ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine.
