[sane-devel] SANE2 standard completion

[Julien BLACHE]

Johannes Meixner <jsmeix at suse.de> wrote:

Hi,

> I think I understand now what the difference is between
> cupsd/saned and hpiod/libhpmud:
>
> cupsd and saned provide a driver and frontend independent
> single central service to do printing and scanning.

Exactly.

> In contrast the hpiod was an additional special daemon
> only for one single driver package (HPLIP). 

I think they used the daemon to multiplex the access to the MFP
devices, as otherwise it was not possible to print & scan "at the same
time".

JB.

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