On 6/21/08, peter <petercmx at gmail.com> wrote: > > Gerard Klaver wrote: > On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 14:29 +0700, peter wrote: > > > My HP Scanjet 3970 is on its way out ..... I would like to replace > with another HP and I have just been comparing the HP Scanjet current > models (from the HP site) with what is and what is not supported in > Sane. It appears that more or less everything is not supported. This > I find very surprising and so I was wondering if I had missed the > point somewhere? > > I would like to use either a Scanjet G4010 or a G4050 but since both > are unsupported (in common with the rest of the current scanners) I am > very reluctant to buy and see what happens. > > Could anyone please tell me if I have got this wrong or is there > another way round this? > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > > Did you check the www.hplip.org site for the sane hpaio backend > supported scanners? > > Thank you for the suggestion, I cannot find that site, no dns entry, but > I have just taken a look here > http://hplip.sourceforge.net/ > but that seems to be relating to printers and printers which have scanners > integrated. If you click to look at single function scanners a pop-up > appears suggesting that you look at the Sane site ....... :)
well, if sane support is important to you, then why not pick another brand... allan -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
