On Sun, 2008-12-28 at 16:20 -0800, David Poole wrote: > > Sounds like you would be the kind of manufacturer to publish > > protocol specs, do you plan to do that, or have you done so? > > Me, personally, I'd love to be able to do that. I've talked with my > managers and no go. As a previous poster mentioned, our business > types consider our own protocol a "strategic advantage".
:/ > I've been given permission to help SANE but I must have anything I do > reviewed by management first. I guess that is much better than the situation with other scanners, thanks for that. > > This precedent and pressure from HP/Canon etc might then be used to > > get other scanner OEMs to do similar and or employ developers to > > work on the SANE project, adding drivers before their scanners are > > released. > > We're a very tiny part of the market. We don't have any products > labeled as our own. We co-develop low cost mono laser MFPs with HP. > The HP LaserJet M1005 (vid=0x3b17) and M1120 (vid=0x5617 and > vid=0x5717) are ours. There's another one (vid=0x5817) but I can't > remember the official product name (ADF + Fax). I actually discussed this USB scanner class idea with Bdale Garbee (HP OSS & Linux CTO) on the bus back from DebConf. Are there any other SANE scanner OEMs? (pun intended) PS: thanks a lot for the information you've provided. -- bye, pabs http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20081229/63aa55e4/attachment.pgp
