[sane-devel] Lexmark X83

Henning Meier-Geinitz henning@meier-geinitz.de
Thu, 7 Nov 2002 11:02:03 +0100


Hi,

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 07:36:29PM -0800, Dave Close wrote:
> Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:
> >> I have confirmation from Lexmark that the X83 is not based on the same
> >> chip as the X73, though they did not tell me on what chip it is based.
> >Well, too bad. At least we are sure now.
> 
> I have learned that the X83 is, in fact, based internally on an IEEE-1284
> parallel interface and some kind of USB converter. Does that provide any
> clue or hope that some other SANE backend might be appropriate?

If you can find out which kind of chips are used "behind" the
converter, that may help.

Bye,
  Henning