[sane-devel] HP 4100C-scanning problems

gpersoh gpersoh@mucl.de
Fri, 02 Nov 2001 10:57:26 +0100


Hi,

>Anybody got a HP Scanjet 4100C working?
>I tried sane 1.0.4 (preinstalled SuSE 7.2 distribution) with very poor
>results.
>Set up:
>Pentium 166 Mhz, 58 MB
>System SuSE Linux 7.2, Kernel 2.2.4
>Scanner HP Scanjet 4100C (USB)
>
>All necessary files ( hp.conf; dll.conf) correct set up- at least to my
>mind.
>
>Scanner detected by kernel driver.
>
>scanimage -L reads "device 'hp/dev/usbscanner' is a Hewlett Packard
>MODEL.x flatbed scanner
> 
>Scanning with "scanimage -d hp:/dev/usbscanner > out.pnm" results in:
>* A4-Text with reasonable quality  
>* A4-image (color) 300 dpi : The scanner moves step by step instead in a
>continous pass.
>After about 10 minutes it stops with : "Error during device I/O"
>
>Anybody got an idea how to solve the problem?
>
>thanks
>
>    G. Persoh
>