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<h1>HP ScanJet IIc ADF report</h1>
<b>Nick Lamb</b> (<a href="mailto:njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk"><i>njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk</i></a>)<br>
<i>Sun, 14 Mar 1999 04:03:10 +0000 (GMT)</i>
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Well, I've finally got access to an HP scanner, so that my ramblings on<br>
this list are supported by more than the PNM backend and a desire to learn.<br>
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The scanner is an ancient HP ScanJet IIc with an ADF, and it is connected<br>
to a Pentium 90 with a DPT SCSI card of the same vintage as the scanner.<br>
The Pentium 90 usually runs Windows 95, but I've installed a Linux 2.2.2<br>
kernel with 64Kb SG_BIG_BUF and I'm talking to it mostly via saned &amp; net.<br>
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Discoveries so far<br>
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(1) Although the frontends report a resolution up to 1600 dpi the scanner<br>
really only offers up to 800 dpi real (optical?) resolution.<br>
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(2) 800 dpi is a lot of bandwidth. The scanner backtracks in all modes<br>
but B&amp;W if the resolution and scan width exceed certain values.<br>
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(3) Even when backtracking, Linux + SANE is faster than Win95. A decent<br>
high resolution colour scan takes half as long in Linux as Win95.<br>
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(4) The network doesn't slow down scanning (perhaps it even speeds it up<br>
since the hard disk is on the same SCSI controller as the scanner)<br>
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(5) Playing with the load next/ eject etc. stuff in xscanimage causes it<br>
to crash. The remote saned seems fine, so presumably this is a network<br>
backend or xscanimage bug. I had trouble tracking this down further.<br>
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I also found (and reported) an Xsane memory allocation bug.<br>
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Nick.<br>
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