New scanner/printer combo

[Bill Davidsen]

Louis Lagendijk wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 11:10 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Saturday 24 October 2009, Louis Lagendijk wrote:
> 
>>>> Problem 2 is that the scanner doesn't even check in as shown above.
>>>> OTOH, I also have an Epson 1250u that works flawlessly, but it would be
>>>> nice to get rid of one rather high occupancy item here in the coyote.den.
>>> and this is the strange part: why does it not show the scanner? What
>>> does lsusb return? Does the scanner work under Windows? Not that it
>>> matters much as the scanner seems not supported by Sane right now. But
>>> maybe this is just a matter of adding the usb id....
>>>
>>> Louis
>>>
>> The scanner does show in an lsusb -v, but not without the -v, here is a 
>> snippet:
>> 

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>> Thanks.
> 
> I suggest to keep an eye on http://avasys.jp/eng/linux_driver/ 
> these guys make some linux drivers for Epson devices (they are in some
> way related to Epson). I see that they already have Imagescan for the
> NX415 (actually Image Scan! for Linux & Photo Image Print System Lite)
> Click on the download for "all in ones", select the NX415 and of you
> go.....
> 
And that's what I had to do, I have a CX7400, I installed the avasys package for 
FC6 (when that was current) and used iscan as the program, since it will do what 
I want and give me a PPM image I can modify as needed, using the netpbm package 
tools and some I wrote using their libraries.

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