avasys drivers and PM-A850 scanning

[Joel Rees]

(Apologies for the threading.)

> Joel Rees wrote:
> <snip>
> > Sorry, I was not very clear.
> >
> > I tried scanning from the gimp. IIRC it was xsane that complained
> > that it could not find the driver.
>
> ok.
>
> did not mention what you tried either. :0)

It was a late night when I posted, I'm running^H^H^H^H^H^H^H trying  
to run four or five projects at once between semesters, I'm closing  
on 50-ish (8-p)), ..., lots of excuses, you see. |-(

> so i ran a google for you on 'epson pm-a850'.

Thanks.

> this relates to 'epkowa 2.10.0'
>
> http://www.sfr-fresh.com/linux/misc/sane-backends-1.0.19.tar.gz:a/ 
> sane-backends-1.0.19/doc/descriptions-external/epkowa.desc
>
> note lines 25 -> 45.

I'll work through that and see what I can find. Epson's Japanese site  
had this list of common printer models on the download page for the  
scanner driver for Mac OS X (the family computer here):

CC-500L / CC-550L / CC-570L / CC-600PX / CC-700 / PM-A850 / PM-A850V

at

http://www.epson.jp/dl_soft/readme/819.htm

so that gives me something else to work from.

> if you have not seen this before, log;
>
> http://www.google.com/advanced_search? 
> hl=en&output=linux&restrict=linux
>
> run search against lines 26 -> 34.
>
> also, line 43 [unless that is what you were using].
>
> have you tried line 45?


That looks familiar. I'll have to look in my Fedora 7 partition, to  
see if that's what I've got configured there.

And I guess this thread should get moved to a CUPS list or forum from  
here.

Thanks again.

Joel Rees