On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Rene Rebe wrote: > Hi, > > On Wednesday 04 October 2006 14:06, m. allan noah wrote: >> On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Rene Rebe wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Monday 02 October 2006 20:19, m. allan noah wrote: >>>> in order to get the kodak i40 (clone of av-220?) working with the >>>> avision backend, i had to extend the TUR/INQ timeouts in the function >>>> avision_cmd() from 1500 to 2000. otherwise, the scanner gets hung in >>>> wait_ready(), eventually timing out after 10*30 sec. >>>> >>>> my system is A64 4000+, 1gig, FC4 64, with a very short usb cable, so >>>> maybe i outrun the scanner a bit :) current sane cvs, btw. >>>> >>>> rene? >>> >>> Yeah, best always CC me as I do need to track soo many lists. >>> >>> Thanks for this comment as I never got feedback for the i40. I already >>> have longer timeouts in my SVN development copy and I'll sync all the >>> tested changes to SANE CVS in the next days. >>> >>> How comes you tinker with so many differnet scanner brands recently? >> >> the same question could be asked of you, since it seems that avision >> backend works with 9 or 10 'manufacturers' :) i volunteered to make sure > > Yeah. Avision is one of the biggest scanner manufactors delivering to a lot > OEM companies, Kodak, Visioneer, HP, Oki, ... to name a few. I think a Google > search will reveal that Avision manufactures about 300.000 scanners per > month ...
or, for those on this side of the pond, 300,000 :) > >> this scanner works under SANE, it was not my choice of hardware. i would >> rather have changeable background color of a nice fujitsu :) > > Changable background color? > yes, the higher end fujitsus ($900+) have a servo/solenoid-driven background behind the page, opposite the read head, such that the driver can choose between a black or white background. when you enable overscanning, this makes it quite easy to deskew the page. > Btw. some Fujitsu are also made by Avision :-) i am aware. IIRC, FUJITSU (or at least FCPA) was AVISION's first customer. remember that i have an sp15c for which i sent patches to you :) > >> i will try to find time to load your SVN copy tonight and run some tests >> so you can update the status from 'basic'. with current CVS, i have done >> color/gray/lineart at a few resolutions, but have not tried duplex yet. i >> expect 'good' is a better choice. > > That would be nice indeed. > >> visioneer/paperport also appear to sell this scanner too? > > Yep. > -- "so don't tell us it can't be done, putting down what you don't know. money isn't our god, integrity will free our souls" - Max Cavalera
