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2005-04-12 Thread Fred Odendaal
Bertrik Sikken wrote: >Can you get a scan of what this part off to the side looks like? > > Yes. I'm taking a break from this for a while. But will try it when I get back. >The scanner I worked on had a black spot there and a white strip >over the width of the scan bed. >I used the black spot

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2005-04-12 Thread Fred Odendaal
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --070606000501070302000803 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks for the tip. I hadn't actually thought of looking at the calibration data as an image. There are no other data tran

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2005-04-11 Thread Bertrik Sikken
Fred Odendaal wrote: > So, I'm thinking "I've got a degree in comp. sci. How difficult can it > be to write a scanner driver?" I leaf through the sane documentation - > looks simple enough! "Okay", I decide, "I'll do it!" Then I start > looking for information about my scanner - a Lexmark X1185. I

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2005-04-10 Thread Earle F. Philhower, III
Hi Fred, Don't give up yet, some suggestions you probably already heard below... --- Fred Odendaal wrote: > So, I'm thinking "I've got a degree in comp. sci. How difficult can it > be to write a scanner driver?" ...big snip... > Finally after many Windows scans and log files at various differe

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2005-04-09 Thread m. allan noah
if it makes you feel any better, there are a dozen people on this list in the same boat. i dont know of any lawsuits that have occurred so far. in fact, the opposite might be more likely to be true, as vendors realize the utility of a package that means they dont have to write drivers for sever

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2005-04-08 Thread Fred Odendaal
So, I'm thinking "I've got a degree in comp. sci. How difficult can it be to write a scanner driver?" I leaf through the sane documentation - looks simple enough! "Okay", I decide, "I'll do it!" Then I start looking for information about my scanner - a Lexmark X1185. I start with Lexmark. They