[GRLUG] LINUX and NOT LINUX

[Dave Brondsema]

john-thomas richards wrote:
> 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.

Yep, I have a CanoScan N1220U.  It's listed "Complete" on that page and
just works; I don't think I had to manually install any specific drivers.

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