Hi, On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 04:16:46PM +0100, Jim MacLeod wrote: > I'm new to scanning and relatively new to Linux. Searched the web for info > and got the impression, which others confirmed, that generally anything > epson works with Linux, but maybe not the 3490!
Generally, to find out if a scanner is supported by SANE, enter it into the scanner search engine: http://www.sane-project.org/cgi-bin/driver.pl?manu=epson&model=3490&bus=usb It says that that scanner is supported with support level "basic" by the snapscan backend. > sane-find-scanner gets vendor and product code but scanimage -L finds > nothing. Maybe your sane-backends package is just too old? As far as I know, you need version 1.0.16 for that scanner. > Having now read a previous mail about the 4490 I'm guessing that the same > applies to the 3490, ie no go..are my fears justified? That scanner isn't even in our list. Can anyone provide more details (vendor/product ids, chipset)? Support is planned for the epkowa backend, see the list archive of this list for details. Bye, Henning
