On Fri, 21 Nov 2008, m. allan noah wrote:
> did you try asking the hplip guys? No. But I would be glad to do so. Can anyone help me with an appropriate contact address? Theodore Kilgore > > allan > > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:06 AM, <kilgota at banach.math.auburn.edu> wrote: >> >> My wife's oldest son just sent me the following note: >> >> >> "I bought an HP LaserJet CM1312nfi CC431A which is a >> network printer / scanner (and copier / fax). Printing works perfectly via >> the network interface using some generic HP driver which CUPS already had. >> For the scanning I was looking at SANE www.sane-project.org , which >> appears >> to be the primary open source scanner software. >> >> "The sane-find-scanner program does find the device when I connect it via >> USB, but scanimage --list-devices does not. It's not on their supported >> list, but I'm thinking (guessing) the scanner can't be all that different >> from all the other scanners out there... or at least from the other HPs. >> Any ideas on how to get it working ? BTW I have very little knowledge of >> USB devices under Linux other than simply mounting drives, so I haven't >> really tried anything yet ) >> >> "(I mainly bought the thing for the printing / copying / fax, so this is >> in >> part academic; but it would be nice to have it all work in Linux, plus I >> figured this might be right up your alley...)" >> >> >> So I wonder if anyone knows anything about this particular gadget. If we >> need to learn more about it, then he does not live very close to us, but >> he does run Linux at home and would probably be willing to participate to >> some extent in figuring out what to do. Naturally, I told him that a first >> good step is the output of lsusb or /proc/bus/usb/devices (if available) >> or, preferably, both. I have not yet gotten anything back from him about >> that. >> >> Just curious. Do we get better cooperation out of HP these days than we >> used to? >> >> Theodore Kilgore >> >> >> -- >> 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 >> > > > > -- > "The truth is an offense, but not a sin" >
