Hi Rolf, Rolf Bensch writes:
> Hi, > > I don't look through Canon's marketing policy how they name their > devices. It's not such easy as it looks like: EU = 5, US = 7. > > E.g.: For Canon imageClass MF4700 Series I found these models: > MF4720, MF4730, MF4750, MF4770 and MF4780 (1x Asia, 3x Europe, 1x US). > > For other models Canon is also playing with the suffixes: > e.g. amongst others i-SENSYS MF210 Series provides these scanners: > MF211, MF213w, MF215, MF217w. Some Asian, Europe and US. > > Some time ago I asked me the question, how to identify all available > scanner family members all over the world. I stopped this after > searching a small amount of scanners on Canon's international websites. > It's a real torture. I know. From my experience with EPSON devices, there are no easy rules. It seems like the various marketing divisions just pick model names as they see fit. > I decided to follow Canon's policy for their scanner drivers, to use the > family names, e.g. Canon imageClass MF4700 Series. That is one approach, assuming that there is actually some logic to the use of "Series". If I see MF4700 Series, I would sort of expect any MF47xx or MF470x device to be covered. I don't know about the Canon devices, but for EPSON I see stuff like - L360 Series - L362 Series - L364 Series - L365 Series - L366 Series at which point I seriously question the meaning of "Series". > Adding some explanation in pixma scanners section header > (http://www.sane-project.org/lists/sane-backends-cvs.html#S-PIXMA) could > help, what 'Series' stands for. Or using a 'x' could also help, e.g. > 'Canon imageClass MF47x0', without 'Series' and suffixes but with an > explanation in the section header. I guess the best approach is to simply add whatever model name monikers are available for a device. The purpose of our description files is for our users to be able to find their device. Whatever makes that task a bit easier is a Good Thing. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join
