[aclug-L] Re: umax -astra 1220P scanner

["Greg House" <ghouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Michael Holmes <maholmes@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [aclug-L] umax -astra 1220P scanner


>I have picked up a scanner at the saturday sale.  It came with all the
>windoz software, and it does a good job, as far as I am concerned, But,
>I wnat to make it work with Linux.  I know about a month ago someone
>asked the same question, but then I had no incentive to pay attention!
>NOW I DOES!!!  :-)

The scanner mgmt package is called SANE. I hate to bring bad news, but there
are VERY few parallel port scanners that are supported. It seems every
vendor uses a different, proprietary, protocol for their parallel port i/o,
none of which are publically documented.

Most SCSI scanners are supported. If you'd gotten the Umax 1220S, you'd be
all set.

Greg