Canon 3000 scanner

[Nat Gross]

On 1/10/06, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:
> Nat Gross wrote:
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> >On 1/10/06, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:
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> >>Nat Gross wrote:
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> >>>Can someone please give me a little 'play by play' how to get a Cannon
> >>>3000 usb scanner working with FC 4 (fully updated via yum) working.
> >>>Tons of conflicting googled info makes it sound more complex then it should be.
> >>>
> >>>Thank you all;
> >>>-nat
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> >>If you can't do it with sane, I don't know how you can do it, and the
> >>sane site says that this scanner is "unsupported."
> >>http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-CANON
> >>
> >>Greg
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> ><sigh>
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> If it makes you feel any better, I've had a Visioneer 8100 scanner for
> several years now; it remains unsupported, and one of the few reasons I
> hang onto a partition with Windows, yet port all the output to work with
> it in Linux.
Tough enough to reboot/shutdown just to get a scan, worse when Windoz
would only come up in 'safe mode'. No time to troubleshoot windoz.

> A part of me hopes that some day the scanner will die, but
> "unfortunately" it keeps working without problems.
Maybe we (we=Any Linux user stuck with a scanner) get together and
offer the complete pile of scanners on e-bay (thousands of scanners?),
organize a web site, and split the proceeds to get ourselves new
scanners.
-nat