Re: [gentoo-user] how to find whether scanner supported

[Philip Webb]

131224 Dale wrote:
> Philip Webb wrote:
>> I recently bought an HP 2510 printer-copier-scanner.
>> It prints & copies, but Xsane can't find it as a scanner.
>> I suspect the problem is that Sane-backends doesn't support it :
>> how do I find out whether that is the case ?
> It seems hplip supports it.  Is this your printer?
> http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/deskjet_aio/deskjet_2510_series.html

Yes.  Thanks for this link, which seems to lead to the answer.

It says it scans, but "see Note 3", which refers onwards to Note 9 ,
which says that there mb a different API called 'digital sending'
& refers to Node 302 , which says some multifunction products (MFPs)
don't support SANE, but scan directly to a shared directory,
which you have to set up (Node 334).  The MFP then accesses the directory
via a network, which you have to set up as well for the MFP.

That suggests there's no Sane backend & that there's no Xsane fine-tuning,
while you have to jump thro' many hoops to scan at all.
If that is correct, I'll stick to my Epson, which works well enough.

Does anyone have any further comments or suggestions ?

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