# Minolta Dimage Scan Dual info

Ray Clouse (Ray.Clouse@boeing.com)
Fri, 13 Mar 98 08:08:12 -0800

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Here's the bad news:

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Date: 03/13 7:45 AM
Received: 03/13 8:02 AM
From: dphotoinfo@minolta.com
To: ray.clouse@boeing.com

What you are asking for ...."protocol documentation", is not
something
that Minolta USA provides. We consider that a software developers
kit, SDK, and we are unable to provide that information.

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Subject: Re: Dimage Scan Dual information
Author: MIME:Ray.Clouse@boeing.com at INTERNET
Date: 3/9/98 4:22 PM

> Ray,
> Thanks for the inquiry. Unfortunately we do not have any drivers for
> Linux or UNIX systems. if an SDK is available it would only be accessible
> thru Minolta Japan (or parent company). You may want to try contacting
>them
> at www.minolta.com. Sorry,
I will attempt to contact them, but perhaps I didn't make myself clear.
I know that you do not have drivers for Linux or Unix. What I was trying
to say was, if Minolta could supply the information about how the scanner
works (the "protocol documentation"), geeks like me will write a driver
that will work with the (already existing) SANE software. An analogy
would be this: suppose you didn't have a Macintosh plug-in for Adobe
Photoshop, and Mac people wrote their own plug-in so the Dimage scanner
would work with Photoshop. That's basically what we want to do for you
for the Linux platform.
You supply the necessary information, and we'll do the dirty work. Then
you can advertise that "drivers exist" for the Linux platform!
>Hi. I recently bought this scanner, and am pleased with it. I would
>like to run it on my PC using the Linux operating system. There is a
>Linux project (http://panda.mostang.com/sane) called Scanner Access Now
>Easy which develops scanner drivers to interface with the Linux operating
>system. I asked the project's mailing list whether drivers were being
>developed and was told the following:
>
>>> How many people out there have this particular scanner? Are there any
>>> plans to make a backend driver for it?
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I tried to get the specs of a Minolta quickscan 35, but in Holland they
>>couldn't help me :-( Maybe you can try to get them in your country.
>
>So, if you could get the "protocol documentation" for the scanner, a
>driver could be developed and I would be able to use the scanner with
>Linux. It works fine with my Mac, but I really prefer to use Linux.
>Frankly, if I had to do it all over again, I would not have selected the
>Dimage scanner because it doesn't work with Linux (some of your
>competitors that do are the Nikon Coolscan II and the Microtek Scanmaker
>35t).

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I replied & told them I'd forward this on to the mailing list & webpage
so that other Linux users will know to avoid Minolta scanners of any kind.

Ray Clouse ray.clouse AT boeing.com
Engineer Scientist rclouse AT worldnet.att.net
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