"M. Warner Losh" wrote Sun, 18 Jun 2006 14:37:41 -0600 (MDT) (22:37 CEST) > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Alexander Leidinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : Quoting "Julian H. Stacey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Sun, 18 Jun 2006 21:53:22 > +0200): > : > : > Do you know who'se working on this 'cos I'm trying to get > : > Sane & ports/graphics/sane-backend working here with my HP 4400c scanner, > : > & if someone else has achieved that already ? ... > : > : I don't know. And after looking at the supported devices page of SANE > : I'm not sure if it possible at all ATM without doing it on your own. > > I think the 4400 is in the same boat as the 4215 I have. Gotta get > HP's drivers working, and that's a bit pita... > > Warner
[Apologies for delay] Dont know if this might help your 4215, but seems there's progress on my 4400, I made notes & will download & try later: -------- Web search: >From http://www.neoseeker.com/Hardware/Products/4400c/ The HP ScanJet 4400C has a flatbed design. It has a optical resolution of 1200x1200 dpi. It can scan a color document in about 40 seconds and a B&W document in about 35 seconds. It supports both parallel and usb connection. This scanner is PC/Mac compatible. It also includes 5 configurable buttons. Release Date: Q4 2001 http://www.itweek.co.uk/computeractive/hardware/2012918/hp-scanjet-4400c Review: $90 http://www.buzzard.me.uk/jonathan/scanners-usb.html ScanJet 4400C, 4470C These scanners uses a RealTek RTS8891 chip to drive the scanner. Requests for information on this chip to RealTek have gone unanswered. There is some very preliminary software for these based on reverse engineering the Windows driver. More information on this can be can be found at SourceForge here. http://reapoff.sourceforge.net/hpscanner/Default.htm [EMAIL PROTECTED] has got it working in grey scale etc http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showproduct.php?product=108&cat=all I have spoken to HP about this. The scanner uses a parallel port but has a USB to parallel converter in it. http://projects.troy.rollo.name/rt-scanners/chip.html There is a demo SANE backend for the HP ScanJet 4400C and 4470C at http://hp44x0backend.sourceforge.net that can do greyscale scanning at 300 / 600 DPI. http://www.sane-project.org/cgi-bin/driver.pl?manu=hew&model=4400&bus=any grayscale 300DPI only http://hp44x0backend.sourceforge.net/ HP4400C UNTESTED ALPHA http://sourceforge.net/projects/hp44x0backend/ hp_rts88xx Scanjet HP4470c family SANE backend (hp_rts88xx). http://home.foni.net/~johanneshub/testtool.html http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/user/view/cs_msg/23440 i have too an hp 4400 c seems to be in fact a UMAX one with USB converter inside.:1 -------- -- Julian Stacey. Consultant Unix Net & Sys. Eng., Munich. http://berklix.com Mail in Ascii, HTML=spam. Ihr Rauch = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz. _______________________________________________ freebsd-usb@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-usb To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"