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Canon CanoScan FB620P
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3 3188 01-15-2005
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100% of reviewers $111.77 7.7



Description: Parallel port scanner. 600 dpi. Current drivers that ship with Slack 9.1 support it great, previous versions had to be tweaked to make it work. Used with Sane, works excellent (although a bit slow).
Keywords: Canon parallel port scanner
/sbin/lspci output: N/A
Chipset: N/A
Connection Type: parallel


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Old 03-23-2004, 08:12 PM   #1
syberdave
 
Registered: Oct 2003
Distribution: slackware
Posts: 13
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 8

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.3
Distribution: slackware 9.1



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just a hint...
in slackware, open up /usr/local/etc/sane.d/dll.conf
and uncomment (remove the #) the line with canon_pp

took me a while to figure this out.
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Old 03-26-2004, 07:38 PM   #2
Slacker_Rex
 
Registered: Aug 2003
Distribution: Slackware 12.1
Posts: 91
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $70.00 | Rating: 9

Kernel (uname -r): 2.4.25
Distribution: Slackware 9.1


As indicated, uncomment the line in the dll file, otherwise works perfectly. Not fancy, but it gets the job done, old reliable.
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Old 01-15-2005, 04:38 AM   #3
glalejos
 
Registered: Jan 2005
Distribution: Debian
Posts: 18
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $153.54 | Rating: 6

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.8-1-686
Distribution: Debian SID


It seems that Canon hasn't released the specifications of this scanner yet, so there are a pair of issues with the available one, see http://www.fifi.org/doc/libsane/supported.html#CANON . I also propose to take a look at the "Helping" section of http://canon-fb330p.sourceforge.net/ .

Anyway this model does its job under Linux: it is capable of scanning documents (I'm using the parallel port version).

As said in other reviews of this product, the file "dll.conf" has to be modified to enable autodetection. In Debian, it can be found in "/etc/sane.d/dll.conf". Search for the line containing "canon_pp" and uncomment it.
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