Hi, Now its working, atleast at 300 dpi, I tried with frontend gscan2pdf with latest backend from sane-git, thanks to Stef.
regards Pavel ken wrote > On 05/09/2015 08:31 PM, Simon May wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've recently bought a Canon LiDE 120. I got my hopes up because on >> http://sane-project.org/lists/sane-mfgs-cvs.html#Z-CANON >> the LiDE 100, 110, 200, 210 and 220 were all listed as completely >> supported and the LiDE 120 is at least marked "untested". However, now >> that I've tried to get it to work and after digging some more, it seems >> the 120 (and perhaps the 220 as well?) is not quite ready yet. >> >> Is there a chance that the LiDE 120 will work soon? Is there any way I >> can help? Or should I return the scanner and get a CanoScan LiDE 220 >> instead? Perhaps any suggestions for a similarly cheap, but >> Linux-friendly scanner? >> >> Best wishes, >> Simon May > > Simon, > > I bought a couple Canons, both of which I returned. The first wouldn't > work, allegedly unless I upgraded my OS, which I wasn't then wanting to > do. The second Canon, from Amazon, was returned without my trying it > out because Amazon said if I opened the box, I couldn't return it. > Because both Canons came to the market at the same time, I assumed the > electronics in both would be the same, so I elected not to open the box. > > Then I bought an HP Officejet Pro 8620, tried it out, got 99% of it > working with Linux, was impressed by it, so kept it and have been using > it without problems for a few months now. > > This is a multi-function "all-in-one" printer/scanner/fax and performs > all those functions reasonably well. One thing which doesn't currently > work at all (with Linux-- haven't tested with any other OS) is sending a > fax document which resides on my computer. I don't send faxes very > often, even less often a document residing on my hard drive, so this > functionality is a very minor concern. Moreover, there's a USB port on > the front of the printer, so should I really need to fax a document from > my hard drive, I can always copy that file to a thumb drive, walk the > hard drive to the printer, and send the fax from it. > > A larger problem is that, according to > <http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c04085902>, the scanner is > capable > of 1200x1200 dpi. But using Linux it can do at best 300x300, a > significant disappointment. Perhaps the driver upgrade (which requires > for me an OS upgrade) will remedy that. > > The link cited above gives more but not all information about this > multi-function printer and others from HP with similar capabilities. > One capability I didn't know about until after I bought it and read the > manual was SNMP. I've been too busy to play around with this, let alone > fully implement it. But I'm quite impressed with what I've read. Most > important for me was how easy it was to get it to work with Linux. I > got it on my network-- first over cable, then over wifi-- within a > minute or two. I did a lot of the configuration from the printer's > touchscreen and the rest using its onboard webserver. The HPLIP > software installed in a minute and provided utilities that made setting > it up with CUPS easier than any other printer I've owned... so too with > the scanner. The fax system took a little longer, but only because it > took awhile before I found that I couldn't fax from my Linux laptop; > otherwise that would have happened quickly as well. > > The only actual bad thing I can say about this printer/scanner/fax is > that it's made me lose patience with stuff that doesn't work well and > easily with Linux. > > If you have any questions (which can't be better answered by Auntie > Google), feel free to send them my way and I'll try to answer them. > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to > [email protected] -- View this message in context: http://sane.10972.n7.nabble.com/CanoScan-LiDE-120-Untested-tp19736p20661.html Sent from the SANE - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- sane-devel mailing list: [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" to [email protected]
