Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 09:08:32 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Subject: Re: Anyone done any SCSI scanner support work? Message-ID: <199609020708.JAA22302@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <373.841639220@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Sep 1, 96 09:40:20 pm"
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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > I just got my hands on a Mustek 800II/SP flatbed scanner, a really > cheap little SCSI scanner with 800x400 optical resolution (internally > doubled to 800x800 with interpolation). ... > I've looked into PINT a little, ... > For anyone curious enough to look. I also know about XVScan, the > commercial product, but it only supports the HP ScanJet. I personally prefer HPscan, followed Nate's opinion here. ;) Of course, as the name suggests, it's for HP ScanJets only. However, it's in the ports and ready to run. Thus my employer prefered to buy a ScanJet, and thus took me any reason to hack Mustek support for anything. :-) Nate once told me that he and Peter Dufault had PINT almost in the shape to get it working with FreeBSD. I remeber Greg Lehey thinking about Mustek support some day. He told me that it's a very slow device. The HPs are surprisingly fast, but you need a huge amount of memory to deal with 600dpiČ for full size. I've seen `xv' bloating up to 75 MB even for a 300dpiČ A4-sized scan, while doing some image processing. With only 32 MB RAM, this took quite some time. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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