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Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1)

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Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> wrote:
> On 2014-10-05, JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> wrote:
>> Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> wrote:
>>> On 2014-10-04, JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> wrote:
>>>>...
>>>> xsane has what seems to me a marvelous way of letting you specify
>>>> the desired scan area by dragging your mouse over a full scan preview.
>>>> I've got 10"x12" originals, so I needed the tabloid-size MFC-J6920DW,
>>>> which seems to be the smallest common size large enough for 10"x12".
>>>> But I was afraid I'd have to crop the pdf's afterwards, as there's
>>>> no standard 10"x12" papersize. But xsane does it perfectly.
>>>> In fact, the scanner even stops before scanning the entire 17" length
>>>> of its flatbed. So xsane must really know how to talk to it.
>>>> Thanks for all your help, np,
>>> 
>>> If/when you get the command-line tool working without
>>> segfaulting, scanimage lets you choose the scan area.  For
>>> example, I have the following C-shell script to scan an image so
>>> that piping the output through pnmtops to lpr gives an 8.5x11"
>>> copy on my particular laser printer that is as close to exact
>>> size and location as I could get.
>>>    if ( $?color ) then
>>>      set mode = '--mode Color'
>>>    else if ( $?gray ) then
>>>      set mode = '--mode Gray'
>>>    else
>>>      set mode = ''
>>>    endif
>>> 
>>>    scanimage -d hp $mode -l 8 -t 4 -x 203 -y 267 > $outfile
>>> HTH Robert Riches
>>
>> Thanks, Robert. That'll definitely help if/when I can get it
>> working. I take it you have. Just curious -- what make/model
>> scanner are you using? And what linux distribution (I doubt
>> that's relevant, but just in case...)?
>>    I'd looked at the man scanimage page, but just carefully
>> enough to test it, and missed those -x and -y options, which,
>> on second look, they seem to have hidden underneath the examples
>> and -l option, with no separate paragraph of their own.
>> Thanks for the info,
> 
> Yes, the -l, -t, -x, and -y options are the key
> to controlling the scan area.

Yes, now if I can only figure out the key
to that --nosegfault option :)

> To answer the question, my scanner is an HP ScanJet 6300C
> (purchased in 2000-2001 because it has SCSI). The printer is a
> Brother HL-5140. Distro is Debian Wheezy, but IIRC the script
> worked okay on Mageia 1 or 2 and maybe Mandriva.  To calibrate
> the numbers, I drew a V with the point near the middle of edge
> edge of the paper, made a copy, compared the copy vs. original,
> and adjusted numbers to improve the alignment.
> HTH Robert Riches

Interesting. The hplip stuff
  http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html
is supposed to provide excellent linux support,
though I suppose there was none of that in 2001.
Judging from what np was saying about scanners and
linux, I'm guessing you must have had (lots?) more
trouble in 2001 than I had recently. But that's
probably not relevant to diagnosing installation
problems today.
  I'd been thinking of getting a tabloid-sized
HP-7610, figuring its hplip support would make
installation a snap. But I like Brother stuff
better (have HL-5050 and HL-5370DW printers),
like I'm inferring you do from your HL-5140,
and ended up going with the MFC-J6920DW.
Not sure I'd do it again if I had to do it over.
Thanks for your help, Robert,
-- 
John Forkosh  ( mailto:  j@f.com  where j=john and f=forkosh )

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(In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2014-10-03 00:46 +0000
  Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2014-10-02 22:17 -0400
  Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-10-03 11:41 +0100
    Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2014-10-03 11:41 +0000
      Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2014-10-04 06:28 +0000
        Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-10-04 09:39 +0100
          Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2014-10-04 12:46 +0000
            Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2014-10-05 03:08 +0000
              Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2014-10-05 03:36 +0000
                Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2014-10-05 03:43 +0000
                Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2014-10-05 08:48 +0000
  Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2014-10-03 16:26 +0000
    Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com> - 2014-10-04 04:06 +0000

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