Re: HP C5100 photosmart

Rex Vaughn (rvaughn@nova.org)
Sun, 17 Aug 1997 16:58:03 -0400

> >>>> On Tue, 1 Jul 1997 09:45:16 -0700 (PDT),
beanbek@nuyums.trinet.bc.ca said:
>
> Beanbek> The hp C5100 scanner is just on the market. It has high
> Beanbek> res 35mm slide and negative ability as well as 5"x7"
> Beanbek> photos. Is there any chance of the scanner being supported

> Beanbek> by SANE?
>
> Yes, provided somebody writes a driver for it. ;-)
>
> Seriously though: HP is traditionally pretty good at making docs
> available, so I doubt there will be a problem from that side. Indeed,

> if it uses SCL (Scanner Control Language), it might be pretty easy to
> get the current HP backend to work.
>
> I guess it all depends whether a developer can get his/her hands on
> such a beast.

Actually it seems that the HP C5100 works just fine under SCL.
I am using sane 0.62....
(I didn't do any through testing but I was able to scan a negative
@2400dpi in full color.
The resulting file was 171 Meg and I didn't have anything that could
view it.... So instead of
scanning the entire strip, I scanned only 40mm of it and got a more
reasonable 30Meg file.)

Anyway, before I start asking dumb questions, is there a FAQ for this
list?

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