It seems that HPLIP does not support slide and negative film scanning in HP Photosmart C7180 which has an integrated slide and film adapter. I'm running Ubuntu 7.04 with HPLIP 1.7.3 and xsane 0.991.
I can't find any options (in xsane) which would turn off the normal scanning lamp and turn on the transparency light inside the lid. There is only one scan source option available (Flatbed). There is the source medium option which mention slide, negatives etc, but even if you select slide or one of the negative options, the transparency light stays off when you start the scan. I believe there should be something like 'Transparency' as scan source. I have been reading the source code of HPLIP (version 1.7.4) and I can't find anything which would seem to be related to film scanning. So I suppose film scanning is not supported. For comparison and to see what to expect I downloaded the source code of Iscan (http://avasys.jp/hp/menu000000500/hpg000000442.htm) which is used for Epson All-In-Ones. In that code you can easily see that film scanning is supported, because you can see comments about transparency unit, film and even about focus position changes. Unfortunately I don't I hope that film scanning will be supported in the next version, so that I don't have to use Windows XP to scan slides. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ HPLIP-Devel mailing list HPLIP-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hplip-devel
