[PLUG-TALK] Canon scanners: Would you buy one?

[Daniel Hedlund]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 21:44, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> I haven't bought a new scanner yet. I keep googling trying to find a
> USB powered scanner that is supported by Xsane. The Xerox 7600 is a
> good alternative to the Canon LiDE 210, for even less money, but the
> Xsane website scanner locater is poorly designed and it's difficult to
> search. It may actually be listed in the database, but I can't find it.

The Xerox 7600 is a re-branded version of the Visioneer 7600:
"Although branded Xerox, the scanner actually comes from Visioneer,
which has an agreement to use the Xerox label."
(http://www.itreviews.co.uk/hardware/h1664.htm)

The Visioneer 7600 is listed on the Xsane site as having "basic" support:
http://www.sane-project.org/cgi-bin/driver.pl?manu=Visioneer&model=7600

Support is listed as good on this site and mentions that it uses the
"E3 chipset", but site may be out of date:
http://www.buzzard.me.uk/jonathan/scanners-usb.html

There was an attempt to add support for the E3 chipset here, but it
was abandoned in 2003 w/o USB support:
http://viceo.orconhosting.net.nz/

The code was later picked up by someone else who added USB support.
Last release appears to be in 2008:
http://www.g-loaded.eu/2008/01/24/viceo-backend-for-sane-with-libusb-support/

Didn't find anything newer relating to the E3 chipset under [X]sane.
Looks like you could get the Xerox 7600 working but it could turn out
to be a lot of work on your end.


Cheers,

Daniel Hedlund
daniel at digitree.org