HP4400C / HP4470C / HP3500 / HP3570 / HP3530 SANE Webpage

PLEASE NOTE, THAT'S A UNTESTED ALPHA VERSION. NO WARANTY!!

This is the 14. „alpha“ version of a preview for a scanner driver with a RTS88xx chipset for Linux.

Contents

1. 1. Supported scanners
      1. HP44x00c scanners (RTS8891 chipset)
      2.     overview
   2. HP35x00c scanners (RTS8801 chipset)
      1.     overview
   3. The development
      1.    Development sides
      2.     Known problems
   4. Driver install
   5. Contributing
   6. Links

Supported scanners

HP44x00c scanners (RTS8891 chipset)

    overview

• Grayscale scan with 300dpi / 600dpi.

• Using the SANEI interface for the Linux Scanner driver module and libusb.

• Additional CCD (CCD1 / CCD2)implemented, my scanner have a CCD1 included.

• HP4470C: XPA is usable.

• Control for BRIGHTNESS implemented.

• Tested with xsane; Kooka; xscanimage; scanimage

• color scan with wrong colors today.
• HP4400C scanners with Mainboard ID 0 are not supported today
  

HP35x00c scanners (RTS8801 chipset)

    overview

• this is today a development version and doesn't work today
  

• Using the Linux Scanner driver module / libusb.

• I need help in the future to implement this scanner into this backend. Please contact me.
  

The development

    was under SuSe Linux 8.0/9.0/9.1/9.2 with kernel 2.4.19/2.4.21/2.6.4/2.6.8 on a Athlon 1GHz.

   Development sides

• HP44x0c
• HP35x0c

    Known problems

• Only for Linux today.

Driver install

• You need the SANE sources (ver. 1.0.xx) from http://www.sane-project.org/

• Kernel 2.4: To use the Scanner module check if it is loaded! Load them with „modprobe scanner vendor=0x3f0 product=0x805 “ (hp4470c, 0x805 = hp4400c).

• Kernel 2.6: Install the libusb (>0.1.7) if it isn't installed.
  

• You need the frondends „Xsane“ , „XscanImage“ or „Kooka“ installed on your PC.

• Include the HP_RTS88xx backend-souces into the SANE sources.

• Go into sane_hp_rts88xx/sane_hp_rts88xx and start patch-sane.sh for patch the SANE sources.

• Start „./configure“ , „make“ and „make install“ on the root folder from the SANE sources. Please read „README“ and „README.linux“ for more.

• Check the installation with „scanimage -L“. It will show the installed driver. If no, please read „README“ and „README.linux“ for more.

• Modify /etc/sane.d/hp_rts88xx.conf : If you see a black image, change the CCD (HP44x0C).

• Additional for SuSe Linux users : use the HP4100 driver for installation under YaST. Modify /etc/sane.d/dll.conf : include hp_rts88xx and disable all another drivers.

• You can find more information's about SANE installation by the sane-troubleshoot Homepage

• Here my additional README.

Contributing

Links

• SANE home page
• french version of this page
  
• The libusb pages at SourceForge.
• The GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation Program.
• XSane, a SANE frontend GUI.
• QuiteInsane not as advanced as XSane or xscanimage, but has a really nice OCR feature.

Last update Dec. 02, 2004 Johannes Hub