Re: HP laserjet 1100A scanner attachment (1100 axe/ase)

Hugo van der Kooij (hvdkooij@caiw.nl)
Sat, 27 Mar 1999 08:01:46 +0100 (CET)

On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Peter C. Norton wrote:

> I don't see any compatability for this document scanner in any of the
> sane docs.

There is. It falls in the large category unsupported devices.

> This is an attachment to a laserjet 1100 that does pretty good
> greyscale document scanning. It works through a parallel port. Is
> there any support for this sort of thing, or anything I can do to help
> support it?

SANE can't support it as the majority of parallel devices are regarded
more secretly as the nuke launch codes by their manufacturers.

> If the concensus that the best thing I can do is write a driver,
> that's fine - as long as I can get some help in identifying how the
> thing works.

Consensus is always that it is good to write drivers. But I have some
doubt about wether ot not someone will be able to obtain the proper
information.

Hugo.

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