I always check printers and scanners, etc. for Linux support before I buy them. :-)
A good rule of thumb is not to buy something recent. Btw, someone is maybe going to add support for that scanner since it is a new Genesys chip and the specs are available. On Tue, June 24, 2008 1:37 pm, Skorous wrote: > < embarrased > Apologies to Chuck, I hit the wrong respond button. < > /embarrased > > > > Marty > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Skorous <skorous at gmail.com> > Date: Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 1:33 PM > Subject: Re: [sane-devel] New Scanner Purchase ..... > To: chuck brigermann <co2 at lenoxlaser.com> > > > > My grandmother always said, "God helps those who help themselves." ;-) > > > Being serious for a moment, this is not HP tech support. If HP doesn't > provide a driver ( I don't know if they do or not, I didn't look ) then > _someone_ has to write one. And many of these companies aren't > forthcoming with design specs. This means someone has to by the equipment, > reverse engineer the protocol, then write the software. Keep in mind that > these people are _not_ employed by HP to do this. If you really need > support for this scanner and no one in the development community has > written one, then you need to complain to HP. However, this is just my > $.02. > > > Marty > > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 12:50 PM, chuck brigermann <co2 at lenoxlaser.com> > wrote: > >> I've been following this thread from the beginning shown below. I >> only recently got involved with Linux as part of a work project to >> determine if it was a suitable replacement for Windows on some of our >> computers. I also decided to try it on my three home computers. After >> investigating a number of distributions, I decided against it because of >> connectivity problems with our network, and at home I had a lot of >> trouble using a dialup modem. >> >> While reading a book on current hardware, I noticed the author highly >> recommended Xandros. I hadn't tried it so I purchased their >> professional version to test. It worked wonderful. Very user friendly, >> which is important to desktop users without computer skills. Also, no >> network or modem problems. >> >> I now have Xandros on seven systems at work and all three of my home >> systems. This brings us to my current disappointment. First, I sent two >> e-mails to this forum about HP4890 support without a single response. >> Now I see this overall support issue is pretty widespread. >> Without a reasonable support structure for peripheral devices, >> printers included along with scanners, Linux is never going to be a >> mainstream OS. Some people may say that's just fine, but then this >> superb distribution of software is lost on a small number of people. >> Many of the packages that are available with Linux are far better >> than their Windows counterparts - and they're free. >> >> Please, please don't ask me to buy another scanner when I have a >> top-of-the-line HP scanner and there's no support for it. HP is one of >> the world leaders in scanning equipment, and this type of hardware is >> widespread and needs to be supported. >> >> Chuck Brigermann >> >> >> ---- Original Message ---- >> From: petercmx at gmail.com >> To: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org >> Subject: [sane-devel] New Scanner Purchase ..... >> Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:29:33 +0700 >> >> >>> My HP Scanjet 3970 is on its way out ..... I would like to >>> replace with another HP and I have just been comparing the HP Scanjet >>> current models (from the HP site) with what is and what is not >>> supported in Sane. It appears that more or less everything is not >>> supported. This I find very surprising and so I was wondering if I had >>> missed the point somewhere?<br> <br> >>> I would like to use either a Scanjet G4010 or a G4050 but since both >>> are unsupported (in common with the rest of the current scanners) I am >>> very reluctant to buy and see what happens.<br> <br> >>> Could anyone please tell me if I have got this wrong or is there >>> another way round this?<br> <br> >>> <br> >>> </body> >>> </html> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org >> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel >> Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" >> to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org >> > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > >