Thanks to everyone for the help. It turns out to be trivial to create a profile which then remains on the printer. There is absolutely no need for scanback or anything else. Likewise there is no need for SANE. The scanner/printer sends the pdf file directly to Ubuntu (I chose to send it to the downloads directory). It is even clever enough to append a number to the filename if the file already exists.
My only "problem" is to delete the profile since I am only a guest at my friend's place and I don't want to leave a trail of "experiments" on his printer. The bottom line is we can dump Windows and go over to Ubuntu. Ilan On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Ilan Tal <ilan.tal at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Torfinn, > Yes, I think you are right. It sounds like the scanback program is actually > creating some sort of temporary scan-to-ftp. It looks like a good idea to > try to set up a permanent link - and then it could just as well be an Ubuntu > target. > > Ilan > > > On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingox at gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Ilan Tal <ilan.tal at gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hello, >> > I may be asking something impossible. If so, please let me know. >> > >> > I have an infoprint 1650 mfp printer/scanner which is on a LAN, stand >> alone >> > and not connected to any particular computer. The printer part works >> just >> > fine, out-of-the-box. The scanner part is another story. SANE doesn't >> detect >> > the scanner. >> >> The documentation is here: >> >> http://infoprint.com/internet/ipww.nsf/vwWebPublished/supwg_infoprint-1650-mfp_en >> >> User guide claims that this model has scan-to-email and scan-to-ftp >> site capabilities. >> Wouldn't it be easier just to set up that? >> >> HTH >> -- >> Regards, >> Torfinn Ingolfsen >> >> -- >> sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org >> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel >> Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" >> to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org >> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20110913/61667ad8/attachment.html>
