[clue-tech] drivers for Lexmark scanners

[mike havlicek]

--- Angelo Bertolli <angelo at freeshell.org> wrote

> I have an all-in-one Lexmark (X4270) which is known
> not to work in Linux
> well.  I've seen that some people have gotten black
> and white printing
> to work, but I really only want to use it for
> scanning.  I was wondering
> if there could be any short-cuts to hooking up just
> the scanner and
> bypassing any of the printing functions.  What I
> mean is:  I've only had
> experience with scanners when they were set up as
> printers, but is this
> required?  Might I be able to get Linux to see it as
> just a scanner and
> make things simpler?
> 
> Angelo
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Forgive me because this is just a chicken scratch
guess at getting started. I assume that the mode
{printer, scanner} is set through software? A
question: what is the interface? SCSI,USB, Parallel..
probably not the latter. Jumping ahead, if say under
windows you close off a session with the hardware
(lexmark) in one mode say scanner, does the device get
reset into some default mode? The chicken scratch idea
is that perhaps you can "fool" the lexmark into
"hanging" in scanner mode. 

There are generic software products for controlling at
least SCSI scanners as far as I know. I think there
are also less superior products for USB. If it is the
doubtful case of parallel .. then there is none to
little hope in my opinion.


Please don't throw me in the briar patch....



 
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