[hpoj-devel] RE: HP OJ K Series and Faxing under Linux

[PASCHAL,DAVID (HP-Roseville,ex1) <dav...@hp...>]

Hi, Harald.  I'm CCing this to the hpoj-devel mailing list, because other
people may have the same questions.

By "partial support" for scanning on the K series, I mean that it works, but
there's a very specific set of steps the user must take in order to scan
successfully, or else it won't work.  These steps are documented in the
patch to the SANE HP backend manual page included with hpoj-0.6, but
basically you:
- load the document(s) into the ADF,
- click "change document",
- scan (preview or otherwise),
- click "cancel" when it scans to the bottom of the page (it will sit there
trying to read more data until you do),
- click "change document" and repeat if there is another page to scan, or
- click "unload" if there are no more documents.

In a future version I plan to make this easier to use, as well as support
scanning from more models.

Faxing to or from the PC is not supported yet, but it will be in the future.
(Likewise for PC-assisted copying.)  However, note that not all fax-capable
models support PC faxing, and some models (particularly the newer ones)
support sending faxes from the PC but not receiving faxes to the PC.  In the
meantime, depending on what model you have you may be able to send or
receive faxes in a standalone fashion without help from the PC. 

David

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harald Milz [mailto:hm...@se...]
> Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 8:48 AM
> To: dav...@hp...
> Subject: HP OJ K Series and Faxing under Linux
> 
> 
> Hello David,
> 
> I looked up the HPOJ page on sourceforge to find out which of the
> Officejets can fax under Linux. Everything else seems well 
> supported (at
> least for the G series) but what about Faxing? 
> 
> nd what means "partial scan support" for the K series? 
> 
> TIA!
> 
> Ciao,
> hm
> 
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