Hi, Please follow this merge request and add your comments here: https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/merge_requests/368
Hope this helps. Cheers, Rolf Am 21.03.20 um 04:04 schrieb Olaf Meeuwissen: > Hi Rolf, > > Rolf Bensch writes: > >> Hi, >> >> I don't look through Canon's marketing policy how they name their >> devices. It's not such easy as it looks like: EU = 5, US = 7. >> >> E.g.: For Canon imageClass MF4700 Series I found these models: >> MF4720, MF4730, MF4750, MF4770 and MF4780 (1x Asia, 3x Europe, 1x US). >> >> For other models Canon is also playing with the suffixes: >> e.g. amongst others i-SENSYS MF210 Series provides these scanners: >> MF211, MF213w, MF215, MF217w. Some Asian, Europe and US. >> >> Some time ago I asked me the question, how to identify all available >> scanner family members all over the world. I stopped this after >> searching a small amount of scanners on Canon's international websites. >> It's a real torture. > > I know. From my experience with EPSON devices, there are no easy > rules. It seems like the various marketing divisions just pick model > names as they see fit. > >> I decided to follow Canon's policy for their scanner drivers, to use the >> family names, e.g. Canon imageClass MF4700 Series. > > That is one approach, assuming that there is actually some logic to the > use of "Series". If I see MF4700 Series, I would sort of expect any > MF47xx or MF470x device to be covered. I don't know about the Canon > devices, but for EPSON I see stuff like > > - L360 Series > - L362 Series > - L364 Series > - L365 Series > - L366 Series > > at which point I seriously question the meaning of "Series". > >> Adding some explanation in pixma scanners section header >> (http://www.sane-project.org/lists/sane-backends-cvs.html#S-PIXMA) could >> help, what 'Series' stands for. Or using a 'x' could also help, e.g. >> 'Canon imageClass MF47x0', without 'Series' and suffixes but with an >> explanation in the section header. > > I guess the best approach is to simply add whatever model name monikers > are available for a device. The purpose of our description files is for > our users to be able to find their device. Whatever makes that task a > bit easier is a Good Thing. > > Hope this helps, > -- > Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 > GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 > Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate > Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join >
