FTR, the "Fix Released" status visible here on the Debian bug is misleading, it was closed because change was rejected by upstream.
Also, if changing the default is undesirable, can upstream please reinstate the knob so that those who would like to take advantage of the full potential of their hardware can do by changing a frontend cofiguration setting? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to hplip in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/192176 Title: Scanner output always JPEG compressed Status in HPLIP: Invalid Status in Simple Scan: Fix Released Status in hplip package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in simple-scan package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in hplip package in Debian: Fix Released Bug description: Binary package hint: hplip The hpaio backend compresses the scanned image with JPEG before it is received by xsane. This makes it impossible to scan anything losslessly. Editing ~/.sane/xsane/($scanner).drc to say "compression" "none" Fixes this temporarily. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/192176/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp