Karl Heinz Kremer <k...@khk.net> writes: > I can confirm your hunch, the V700/V750 scanners do use the ESC/I > protocol, and from what I know (I have not seen one yet) about these > scanners, chances are pretty good that they will work the current > version of the EPSON backend. You do need to add the USB information > to the epson.desc file as Olaf indicates.
Or just stick it in epson.conf, like so: usb 0x04b8 0x012c > Karl Heinz > > > On May 15, 2006, at 6:05 PM, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > >> Henning Meier-Geinitz <henn...@meier-geinitz.de> writes: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> On 2006-05-10 10:50, Fredrik Sandstrom wrote: >>>> I'm considering buying the scanner of the Subject line, but it seems >>>> it's not (yet?) supported by any SANE backend. What's its status, >>>> has >>>> anyone tried it, and can it be expected to be supported soon? >>> >>> As it's not in our list, nobody has reported anything about it. So we >>> don't know. If it's compatible to some alsready supported >>> scanners, it >>> may be easy to support it. If it's a completely new scanner with a >>> new >>> chip set, this means developing a new backend. This is up to a >>> user of >>> such scanners. Usually, it won't be done by any of the current SANE >>> developers. >> >> I have a "hunch" that this scanner speaks the ESC/I protocol. Try >> adding the USB device info directly to the epson.conf file but don't >> blame me if that breaks your scanner. >> >> If anyone can make a USB log from the Windows driver available I >> should be able to tell whether the Perfection V700 speaks ESC/I or >> not. >> >> Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen EPSON AVASYS Corporation, SE1 FSF Associate Member #1962 sign up at http://member.fsf.org/ GnuPG key: 6BE37D90/AB6B 0D1F 99E7 1BF5 EB97 976A 16C7 F27D 6BE3 7D90 Penguin's lib! -- I hack, therefore I am -- LPIC-2
