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Subject: Re: Canoscan LiDE50 support
From: paddy spencer
Date: 08 Jul 2003 19:24:15 +0100

On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 20:21, Jaeger, Gerhard wrote:
> Hi Paddy,
> 
> if the chipset is the same, the support is no problem (except the picture
> quality :-( ), but I don't think it uses this rather old chipset. Searching
> the SANE infobase shows, that the scanner may use a newer but not
> supported GeneSys Logic chipset
> http://sane.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/cgi-bin/driver.pl?manu=canon&model=&bus=usb

Ah, I was afraid of that. Oh well, no matter. It's not such a bind to
reboot into 'doze on the few occasions I need to scan something. My main
criteria when buying the scanner were size, speed & USB. Someone may do
something for it eventually.

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paddy spencer <paddy.spencer@ukgateway.net>