Hello Jean-Marc, On Fri, 6 Aug 2010, Jean-Marc CHALLIER wrote: > I wanted to start the development of a back-end for the Konica-Minolta > Magicolor 2480MF Multi-Functional Peripheral (MFP). I have several > questions : > * Has such a project already been started ? I searched the archives of the > mailing list without success, but...
Now, that's a coincidence. Just a few days ago I posted a similar question to the list about the magicolor 1690MF... Unfortunately, I did not get any response. Please note, though, that I'm not a sane developer, but I'm looking into writing a backend. > * Is there anything special about the programming of an MFP back-end, or > does the underlying kernel take care about the printing/scanning > mutual exclusion ? To be honest, I haven't yet thought about this, but I would suspect that the other devices don't respond while one is doing some work, or an error code is returned. > * Does anyone know where I can get programming information about this > device (any experience discussing with Konica-Minolta anyone ?) or > will I have to reverse-engineer the communications between the PC and the > scanner (gonna be tough...) ? I tried sending a request to the konica minolta support, but got absolutely no response. I did some reverse-engineering, and it doesn't seem so hard. It would be interesting to see whether the 2480mf uses the same protocol (and if so, what are the differences). Here are the results of my reverse-engineering so far: http://wiki.kainhofer.com/hardware/magicolor_scan > * Is there anyone who would like to give me a hand, either with programming > or at least with testing ? I can't help you much with programming, since I don't know the sane codebase yet, but at least the data protocol looks like it might be decoded. Cheers, Reinhold
