I admit that I'm a little late adding a reply to this thread :-) Sheetfed is a term that's used a lot in the printing industry: The=20 offset world uses sheetfed and web presses. It's also used (and has been for quite some=20 time) for scanners.
For terms like this, a general purpose dictionary is not the best place=20= to lookup data. You need a dictionary about a certain subject matter (e.g.=20 printing or scanning) to find this term, but as usual, Google is your friend: Just search for=20= "sheedfed" with Google and look at some of the hits it brings up. If you want to go=20 even further, try "sheetfed dictionary", and you will find a few (? - 824 hits is=20 probably more than just a few :-) tech dictionaries that talk about "sheetfed". Karl Heinz On Dec 13, 2004, at 11:08 PM, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Ren=E9 Rebe <[email protected]> writes: > >> although I already cut'n pasted the proposed type string "sheetfed >> scanner" into my Avision backend (years ago), I noticed today that >> "sheetfed" does not seem to be valid english. What my paper form as >> well as online dictionary know is "sheetfeed" or more precisely = "sheet >> feed". > > The scanner is fed sheets by the sheet feeder, hence a sheet fed > scanner. Compare with handheld scanner. > >> The string is not used often in the backends (avision.c, hpsj5s.c and >> matsushita.c). >> >> If we agree I could just commit to change the occurrences. > > IMHO, these changes should not be committed although I don't mind if a > space or hyphen is put between sheet and fed. FYI, aspell with a UK > English dictionary suggests these as alternatives (1) and (2), resp. > # (0) is sheeted, which is just plain wrong in this case. > > Just my 2 yen. > --=20 > Olaf Meeuwissen EPSON KOWA Corporation, PF1 > FSF Associate Member #1962 sign up at http://member.fsf.org/ > GnuPG key: 6BE37D90/AB6B 0D1F 99E7 1BF5 EB97 976A 16C7 F27D 6BE3 7D90 > Penguin's lib! -- I hack, therefore I am -- LPIC-2 > > --=20 > sane-devel mailing list: [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to [email protected]
