mostang.com seemed to imply this was the right place to ask. So I got my brand new 2450 today, and have been able to make it scan images pretty well. But I bought it for scanning film negatives, which requires that the transparency unit get lit up, etc. Every time I try to use --source 'Transparency Unit', say with the following command line, which basically worked for someone else on this list:
$ scanimage --focus-position 'Focus 2.5mm above glass' --source 'Transparency Unit' --film-type 'Negative Film' --brightnexx 0 -x 26mm -y 38mm -l 7mm -t 40.5mm --resolution 300 --mode Color --depth 16 --format tiff > bw.tiff scanimage: attempted to set inactive option source Winnowing reveals that --source and --film-type are both inactive and nothing I can do seems to make them active. scanimage -L claims that it's a GT-9700, which is a lie but there seems to have been some trouble reported earlier on this list with the Firewire interface in which this scanner will call itself a GT-9700. sane-backends 1.0.8 and 1.0.9-pre1 on Debian sid. Kernel 2.4.19 if it matters, but since I can get some images out it seems like it shouldn't. I'm sure there's some command to tell sane to let me do this, but I haven't been able to find it myself through google. Oh, and the relevant line from my /etc/sane.d/epson.conf: usb /dev/usb/scanner0 and I have options scanner vendor=0x04b8 product=0x0112 in my /etc/modules.conf. -- Graham Hughes <[email protected]> (defun whee (n e) (subseq (let ((c (cons e e))) (nconc c c)) 0 n))
