Re: [gentoo-user] new scanner : how to activate for Gentoo : further thoughts

[Daniel Frey]

On 05/06/2017 06:15 AM, Philip Webb wrote:
> 170506 Mick wrote:
>> On Friday 05 May 2017 19:27:47 Philip Webb wrote:
>>> There is a pkg  media-gfx/iscan-plugin-gt-x820  for a V600 :
>>> I could take the V550 back & exchange it for a V600
>>> & try to install Iscan + data + that plugin.
>> If you are going to change it, isn't there a HP device out there
>> that Just Works™ with the hplip and potentially the hplip-plugin packages?
>
> Very unlikely : I have an HP printer, which also copies & can scan,
> but it isn't supported by Sane-backends & would require much work.
>
> I plan to audit what I've installed carefully today
> & if I still can't get it to work on Gentoo, I'll file a bug :
> hopefully, whoever created the plugin for V600 can do another for V550.
>
> Also, I'll put the Epson install script on my Internet site
> ( http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/test/ ).
> I can't make sense of it, but perhaps someone here can tell me
> what it does with the .deb files when it installs them.
>
> If it works on Mint, it sb possible to get it to work on Gentoo.
> Usually in such cases, the secret is finding  1  small item
> which needs to be fixed & then everything is ok : that's Gentoo's strength.
>

I had to buy a new scanner in late 2015 (I believe) and found a Canon
LiDE 200. I got mine on sale for $90 here in Canada.

This scanner doesn't have as high a resolution (it's only 4800dpi vs.
the Epson you have's 6400) and there's no ADF. It comes with a bracket
to make it sit upright.

Main reason I bought it is because it uses the genesys backend in
sane-backends and no additional configuration was required on my end.

Do note that newer models than mine require some proprietary crap. I had
to search out this model specifically. I've scanned many pictures and
used it to restore an old user manual even, works pretty well for $90.

Dan