sane-sp15c(5)

✨ NAME ✨

sane-sp15c — the SANE backend for the Fujitsu ScanPartner 15C flatbed scanner 💖 (and yeah, this whole page is part of the SANE — Scanner Access Now Easy — manual, section 5, bestie 🎀)

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so listen. the sane-sp15c library is literally a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) backend, and what it does is hand you access to the Fujitsu flatbed scanners 🦋. right now, here's the scanner that's known to actually work with it:

Vendor:  Model:           Rev:
-------- ---------------- -----
FCPA     ScanPartner 15C  1.01

The ScanPartner 15C driver supports:

• lineart (1-bit)
• halftone (1-bit)
• grayscale (4-bit and 8-bit)
• color (3 x 8-bit) 🌈

Other scanners in these families may work too 👀. The ScanPartner 15C seems to be a repackaging of the ScanPartner 600C. People are encouraged to try this driver with the other scanners and to contact the author with test results — like, do it, we wanna know 💅.

🎀 CONFIGURATION 🎀

A modest effort has been made to expose the standard options to the API ✨. This lets frontends such as xscanimage(1) set:

• scanning region
• resolution
• bit-depth (and color)
• and enable the automatic document feeder 👑

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• sane(7)
• sane-scsi(5)
• sane-fujitsu(5)
• xscanimage(1)
• Fujitsu ScanPartner 15C OEM Manual, Doc. No. 250-0081-0
• Fujitsu M3096G OEM Manual, part number 50FH5028E-05
• Fujitsu M3096GX/M3093GX/M3093DG OEM Manual, part number C150-E015...03

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Randolph Bentson <bentson@holmsjoen.com>, with credit to the unnamed author of the coolscan driver 🫶 (iconic behavior tbh)

💀 LIMITATIONS 💀

• Testing limited to a Linux 2.2.5 kernel 😭
• Can't quite get the scan page/minute performance in ADF modes. This may be due to limited system buffer size.

🐛 BUGS 🐛

I'm sure there are plenty, and not too well hidden, but I haven't seen them yet 🙈.

Both scanners claim to have separate control of resolution in X and Y directions. I confess I haven't tested this yet 😅. I have found that xsane(1) doesn't even display this capability.

Threshold settings on the SP15C don't seem to affect the results of lineart mode scans.

It might be possible to merge these two drivers without much effort since the SP15C driver was derived from the M3096G driver 🔥. They were split so as to keep the second driver development from breaking the working first driver. Watch this space for changes. ✨

okay that's the whole page bestie, no cap 💜 — this was sane-sp15c(5), last updated 14 Jul 2008, and you can find it hanging out in the SANE section 5 manual. go scan something cute 🎀📠✨