[sane-devel] "Multi-function" printers and scanners

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 09:08:25PM -0500, Theodore Kilgore wrote:
> Can anyone make recommendations about combination printer-scanner-copier
> machines? There are a lot of cheap ones out there. For esample, our local
> WalMart sells a Lexmark for about $170. I understand from checking out
> www.linuxprinting.org that these cheap Lexmark printers can print now in
> Linux, but they say on that website that they do not know anything about
> the scanner support. These are USB scanners, so they might use one of the
> new scanner-on-a-chip such as for example the LM983x series, which people
> have been pretty successful about supporting at this point.
> 
> So, does anyone know anything about these Lexmark combination machines, or
> some similar devices?

If these are Lexmark X70 or X73, they are reported to work with the
gt68xx backend: http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/gt68xx-backend/

Bye,
  Henning