I have an Canoscan N640P, which works fine with sane/xsane. The interface is parallel, and on the scanner there is printer throughput which also is working fine.
However, and I don't know if this should be solved in the backend or in sane, when I use the copy mode of Xsane, or even if Xsane is opened the printer doesn't work anymore. I need to close xsane and then te printjob starts. Probably xsane opens the backend and keeps the connecting live with the scanner while open. I can think of 2 sollutions for this problem, either xsane let's go of the scanner when it isn't using the device, or the backend should detect a printjob is waiting and disconnect from the scanner. Is there anyone else experiencing this problem? Is there already a sollution for this? If not, which sollution is best, and where should I start looking? versions: sane 1.0.13-1 (Debian unstable) xsane 0.96-1 (Debian unstable) Kind regards, Marc