I think this scanner is supported by the hplip project's hpaio backend. I think hpoj is no longer maintained. Perhaps you could ask them, though their website was down the last time I looked.
allan On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Patrick Muscat <patrick.muscat at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I was happy to see xsane speaking with my old HP Office Jet R45 yesterday > but there is a problem. When a ask for a preview with A4 format, the scanner > wants to go further than the maximum and the chariot is locked. I can open > the scanner and unlock it but it is a bit annoying because the preview does > not end and xsane need a dirty kill or ^C. > I tried different things and noticed that the A5 format is ok, thus I think > there is something with the preset-area-height. I am wondering what is the > unit of this value to reduce it a bit in order to scan as much as possible > without locking the scanner. > A last thing! A used the same scanner since many years (I have got it since > 2003) with xsane and everything was fine?(I have got it since 2003). I do > not remember the version of xsane and sane I was using because I spent some > time under Microsoft OS meanwhile. The scanner works well under windows with > HP drivers. > Current platform: > - Linux Compaq (T5000) 2.6.26-2-486 #1 Thu Nov 25 01:49:20 UTC 2010 i686 > GNU/Linux (Debian Lenny) > -?xsane_0.996-1_i386.deb > -?sane_1.0.14-7_i386.deb > -?hpoj_0.91-14_i386.deb (mlc:parport0) > Thanks for your work! > Pat. > PS:?I?am?truly?sorry?for?my?self translated?English?and?I?apologize. Perhaps > a french will understand my english better than you... > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > ? ? ? ? ? ? to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
