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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> Sounds like you would be the kind of manufacturer to publish protocol<BR>
> specs, do you plan to do that, or have you done so?<BR>
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Me, personally, I'd love to be able to do that. I've talked with my managers and no go. As a previous poster mentioned, our business types consider our own protocol a "strategic advantage".<BR>
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I've been given permission to help SANE but I must have anything I do reviewed by management first.<BR>
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> This precedent and pressure from HP/Canon etc might then be used to get<BR>
> other scanner OEMs to do similar and or employ developers to work on the<BR>
> SANE project, adding drivers before their scanners are released.<BR>
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We're a very tiny part of the market. We don't have any products labeled as our own. We co-develop low cost mono laser MFPs with HP. The HP LaserJet M1005 (vid=0x3b17) and M1120 (vid=0x5617 and vid=0x5717) are ours. There's another one (vid=0x5817) but I can't remember the official product name (ADF + Fax).<BR>
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