Scanner Testing

Scanner testing is done at the scanner testing station in printerland. This is the long table crossing the middle of printerland.

The test computer set up there has both standard and development scanner backends.

Right now we are only testing the USB scanners.

USB

1. Select a scanner
2. Locate a suitable power supply
   • • Most scanners use a 12V 1.25A positive center power supply, but there are many exceptions.
3. Plug into the USB port of the computer and power up the scanner
4. Start xsane
5. If xsane does not find any devices, wait a minute and try again (sometimes the scanner needs to warm up first)
6. If xsane does find a device, it will open a preview pane. Put in an image to scan.
7. Preview and then scan the image.
8. Look for color variations, wavy lines, empty scan lines.

If the scanner fails at any point, record the number and put the scanner in the CBM bin

SCSI

These are not being tested at the moment

Parallel

These are not being tested at the moment