On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Michael Shigorin <m...@altlinux.org> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 09:38:56AM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote: >> Thank you for contacting Canon product support. >> Scanning is not supported using Linux. >> >> Sincerely, >> Technical Support Representative > > Yup, they do printer drivers but don't seem to be involved in > SANE backends at all... which ends up in "half-supported" state > for multifunction devices, *officially* (albeit YMMV). > > Wish it would change (e.g. following hp's approach). >
I would prefer that manufacturers would not write their own drivers, but rather make protocol documentation available to the community. allan -- "well, I stand up next to a mountain- and I chop it down with the edge of my hand" -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@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-requ...@lists.alioth.debian.org
