[GRLUG] LINUX and NOT LINUX

[john-thomas richards]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 05:18:52PM -0400, Bob Kline wrote:
[snip]
> In the LINUX column, I discovered that
> LINUX does not support Canon scanners.
> I tried XSane and Scanlite.  XSane will
> produce a scan, but the colors are way
> off, and I couldn't find a way to correct
> them.
> 
> I then read on some Linux help page
> the claim that Canon is not supported.
> A guess is that Canon won't play ball
> with device driver writers, and that so
> far no one has had the wherewithall to
> reverse engineer the Canon interface.
> 
> If this is wrong, and someone has, or
> knows where to get, Canon drivers, I'd
> like to know about it.  I have a model
> 630.

Have you checked sane's website?
http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-CANON

There are a number of Canon scanners that *are* supported.  I don't know
if your model is, but you can check that.
-- 
john-thomas
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