[sane-devel] SANE support for Microtek USB scanners

Henning Meier-Geinitz henning@meier-geinitz.de
Tue, 17 Sep 2002 19:17:19 +0200


Hi,

On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 11:11:05AM +0530, Manoj wrote:
> Does this mean that we may never be able to use Microtek USB scanners like
> 4800 with sane and have to go surrender to Gates and his windows for
> scanning. Personally I am really disappointed!!!!

There are at least two options:

* Use other scanners
* Write a driver without the help of the vendor. Thst's not that easy
  but not impossible.
  
So there is no need to surrender to anyone :-)

Bye,
  Henning