Thanks indeed to Jim McQuillan and Henning Meier-Geinitz
for their precious help.
I'm reporting the procedure I followed, apart from possible
errors and imprecisions.
Corrections welcome.
Cheers, bye
Rodolfo
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Operating system: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 ("Sarge") r2, kernel 2.4.
My scanner is Boeder, SmartScan Slim Edition.
I did:
# apt-get install sane
, then I went to:
http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/gt68xx-backend/
and followed the instructions:
1) I put the file gt680xfw.usb (that Henning Meier-Geinitz from
the sane-devel mailing list, kindly sent me) in `/usr/share/sane/gt68xx';
2) I did:
# cd /etc/sane.d
# cp gt68xx.conf gt68xx.conf-original
, and in the file `/etc/sane.d/gt68xx.conf' I changed the lines
# Boeder SmartScan Slim Edition:
#override "artec-ultima-2000"
#vendor "Boeder"
#model "SmartScan Slim Edition"
into:
# Boeder SmartScan Slim Edition:
override "artec-ultima-2000"
vendor "Boeder"
model "SmartScan Slim Edition"
firmware gt680xfw.usb
. I made sure that the scanner was seen by `sane': I did:
$ sane-find-scanner
and got the output:
found USB scanner (vendor=0x05d8, product=0x4002, chip=GT-6801) at
libusb:001:003
. Then I did:
# scanimage -h
to get the list of all the possible options available for my scanner.
To scan a white and black photo, I did:
# scanimage > photo.pnm
. To scan a colour photo I did:
# scanimage --mode Color > photo.pnm
. To scan a document I did:
# scanimage --mode Lineart > document.pnm
. To print `document.pnm', I did:
# apt-get install netpbm
$ pnmtops document.pnm > document.ps
$ lp document.ps
