Hi Leonardo, thank you for the feedback, I will update the documentation asap.
Gerhard On Monday, 6. August 2001 16:21, Leonardo Monteiro Barbosa Lima wrote: > Hi, > > I'm writting this to inform you on a rebadged Plustek Scanner which > works under SANE 1.0.5 + the plustek backend 0.39.3. Recently, I reached > out for a scanner, a simple, cheap one, for I didn't intend to use it > for professional work. I looked up the SANE homepage for compatible > scanners, printed up the list and went shopping. The closest catch I > found was a scanner called BrightScan OpticPro, written on the box was > 'Plustek OpticPro Quality', it was a parallel port flatbed scanner > costing about US 80,00. I bought it even though I new there was a chance > a parallel port scanner wouldn't work. I had to use it under ruindows > for a while because the RedHat 7.1 SANE install didn't work authomatically. > > Last Friday I took a time reading Kevin Sisson's notes on > installation, downloaded the most recent sources codes and built them > according to Kevin's instructions. Now I got the following message when > I tipe scanimage -L > > device `plustek:/dev/pt_drv' is a Plustek P12 parallel port flatbed > scanner > > Xsane iterface works fine either. It even works fine with lp module > loaded. > > Finally, I wish to thank you very much on your work writing scanner > drivers. Now I can waste ruindows for good. > > Thank you, > > Leonardo Lima
