Info Needed on Color Scanner

[John Fwu/BTI]

In article <9102072208.AA06746 at banach.aca.mcc.com>, <nong at mcc.com>
(Nong Tarlton) writes:

>
>We are looking for a color image scanner (digitizer) to hookup with our
>PI.  Does anyone know of any, other than the Cannon laser printer/scanner.
>

Under IRIX 3.3.1 /usr/sbin/scanner supported Sharp FX-450 Color image scanner
or the Howtek scanner (an OEM'ed version of the FX-450).

A lab in our area has a Howtek Scanmaster II scanner connected to a VGX.
They have had no problems using third party software to scan images,
but they have had no luck with /usr/sbin/scanner.  They are wondering
if anyone (SGI?) can give them the source code.  They did 'strings scanner'
and didn't find the escape sequence (printable strings) which is used
to control a Howtek Scanmaster II scanner on a Masscomp UNIX workstation.
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