[Nottingham] HP Scanjet 5370C

[Bob Winter]

Alex Walker wrote:

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>On Sunday 04 April 2004 15:52, Bob Winter wrote:
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>>Has anyone had any success getting one of these scanners to work with
>>sane. I can get the scanner recognised using the avision backend but
>>just get random garbage when I try to scan or preview using either kooka
>>or xsane. I have tried commenting out various options in avision.conf as
>>suggested in the man pages and am running Mandrake 9.0
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>I bought a cheapo (£25) "Mustek ScanExpress 1200 UB Plus 600x1200 dpi USB 
>Flatbed Scanner" from ebuyer (see 
>http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?product_uid=36145 ) and it 
>works well with the sane stuff and libusb.  I had to download the firmware 
>driver thing from the website 
>( http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/gt68xx-backend/ ).  I also had to 
>uncomment the relevant lines in /etc/sane.d/gt68xx.conf for my scanner.  Now 
>I can use kooka (but only as root at the moment) to scan stuff in...
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>That's not a very thorough explanation, but it's just what I remember from 
>doing it a few months back, and I've not really helped you.  Just thought I 
>might encourage you that it is possible!   :)
>
>Alex
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Given ScanJet to wife and have just got a Mustek as recommended painless 
and effective

Bob Winter