Dear Henning, Thursday, February 13, 2003, 9:09:29 PM, you wrote: >> >> I started the sane thing to access an hp scanjet IIp over the netwo= rk >> >> for batch scanning of text documents. >> >> Unfortunately I could find out now, that on two W2K Workstations Xs= ane >> >> crashes on the second page coming from adf and on an NT4 Workstation >> >> crashes after 5th page lineart at 200dpi.
HMG> You could try scanimage (command line client) on the server. If that HMG> works, try to run it "over localhost", i.e.: HMG> scanimage -d net:localhost:hp:/dev/scanner >image.pnm (add the HMG> appropriate options). scanimage has also options for batch scanning. This works somehow perfect, except that I cannot give a format size like A4 to scan. It=B4s fast, quiet and reliable. HMG> If the first one fails, it's a hp backend problem. If the second one HMG> fails it's either a backend, net or saned problem. If both work, it HMG> may be an xsane problem. I would say this is an XSane problem, because scanimage works perfect. Aren=B4t there more hints to the problem=3F >> HMG> I have no experience with the Windows version but the Linux XSane (= or >> HMG> to be more exact: sane-net + saned) don't seem to be influenced by >> HMG> other traffic. Well, scanning will be slower, but nothing else. >>=20 >> hm, I should use a Linux as well. HMG> If you ca, that would at least show if the problem is xsane/win HMG> specific. I hope to set up some linux machine soon to test XSane on Linux and what=B4s the behaviour like. Best regards Holger
