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<h1>Re: parallel port scanner</h1>
<b>Milon Firikis</b> (<a href="mailto:milonf@ariadne-t.gr"><i>milonf@ariadne-t.gr</i></a>)<br>
<i>Fri, 27 Nov 1998 00:04:20 +0200</i>
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Debi-Lee Wilkinson wrote:<br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; Hello,</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; I appologize if I have not sent this message to the right address, please</i><br>
<i>&gt; forward it on if that is the case.</i><br>
<i>&gt; I am working with an HP scanner coupled to my printer through the parallel</i><br>
<i>&gt; port.  I believe I have sucessfully installed sane and added lines to the</i><br>
<i>&gt; /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf.</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
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You are asking to the right place. It's not enough to just install SANE.<br>
SANE should also have a backend (driver) for your model of scanner or<br>
for some model that is really compatible to yours.<br>
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Now the ./find-scanner stuff is used to identifying devices in the SCSI<br>
chain of your system. It does not look on the parallel ports.<br>
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[snip]<br>
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<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; Type ``scanimage --help -d DEVICE'' to get list of all options for DEVICE.</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; List of available devices:</i><br>
<i>&gt;     pnm:0 pnm:1</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; and I can not reconcile exactly what/where pnm:0 and pnm:1 are.</i><br>
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pnm stands for portable pixmaps (I think) and it is a file format for<br>
images. It is also the entry level backend being included for<br>
introductory and tutorial purposes. After all it's not to useful to scan<br>
from a file is it?<br>
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<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; My scanner is on lp1.  Or maybe I am using the wrong package for this type</i><br>
<i>&gt; of connection.</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
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Chances are against you I am afraid. You should check if your scanner<br>
speaks some sort of standard language. Currently I am not aware about<br>
the status of the hp backend and if it includes for your scanner since<br>
you didn't  mention the name of the model you posses.<br>
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	MF<br>
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