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Don't be too discouraged, I was facing the same situation 12 months ago with my HP ScanJet-3300c, and now it works better in linux than it ever did under windows with the buggy HP drivers. Join the project mailing list and send bug reports, every little bit helps.
Originally posted by Aussie Don't be too discouraged, I was facing the same situation 12 months ago with my HP ScanJet-3300c, and now it works better in linux than it ever did under windows with the buggy HP drivers. Join the project mailing list and send bug reports, every little bit helps.
Well, something is moving on.
Now there is working sane module for 300 dpi grayscale.
That's not that much from an user point of view, but it's already a lot better than nothing ( eg. for scanning documents ).
Also from the readme in the tarball:
Quote:
HP44x0c
I'm working on the color mode 600dpi.
It is working, but there is a little issue with the colors.
Next steps
- Fix the 600dpi color mode
- investigate and identyfy the regs for the resolutions
- implement more resolutions
- investigation, if it running with all mainboards
- Xfer-module sane_hp_rts88xx/hp_rts_saneiusb.c isn't working
- Xfer-module sane_hp_rts88xx//hp_rts_libusb.c isn't working done
I hope your efforts are worthwhile as I own a 4470c and would like to think I could run on Linux totally if a driver was available.
Mandrake have an entry in their hardware configuration for this device but nothing happens when you try to set it up. I guess they know someone will find a way to get it working.
Originally posted by hoarenet I hope your efforts are worthwhile as I own a 4470c and would like to think I could run on Linux totally if a driver was available.
Mandrake have an entry in their hardware configuration for this device but nothing happens when you try to set it up. I guess they know someone will find a way to get it working.
Note that i'm not the author of the backend...
Basically you need to compile sane-backends from source after having applied a patch avaible from this page ,so included in this archive.
It's quite simple to do so, but with the last version i'm still unable to use it .
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( eg. for scanning documents ).
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