[sane-devel] How to Copy to network printer

Kåre Särs kare.sars at kolumbus.fi
Wed Aug 1 08:27:13 UTC 2007


Hi,

Try: 'scanimage --help' to get a list of parameters you can add. If you have 
more than one scanner add -d [scanner] before '--help', my Epson scanner has 
geometry parameters -l, -t, -x and -y.

Kåre Särs   


On Wednesday 01 August 2007 08:46, Jean-Gabriel Duquesnoy wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 31. Juli 2007 23:58 schrieb René Rebe:
> > On Tuesday 31 July 2007 21:13:09 Jean-Gabriel Duquesnoy wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I would like to use my network printer as output for sane. The
> > > printer is accessed using CUPS and I need to know how I should
> > > setup sane to be able to copy documents to my network printer.
> > > Any hint would be appreciated.
> > > --
> > > --
> > > Jean-Gabriel Duquesnoy
> >
> > scanimage | lpr
>
> Hi,
>
> this works when using only SANE, but the result is that the printout
> is scaled down asmy scanner is able to scan more than A4 the format
> of my printer.
> I have tried using XSANE, but it does not send the output to my
> printer. I have no idea what is happening here or what I am doing
> wrong. As I cannot give SANe the size to scan, at least I did not
> find the parameter to do so, I need to use some frontend allowing me
> to define the scanning range.
>
> Thanks for any advise how to solve this issue.
>
> Best regards,
> Jean-Gabriel



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