19.5 Scanning and Printing with Windows

Gutenprint is supposed to have been ported to Windows, but installing it and getting it up and running properly is not easy. XSane is even more complicated because SANE itself doesn’t currently run smoothly under Windows. Windows users can access SANE through a SANE GNU/Linux server, but doing so requires at least two computers on a local network, and one of them must be a GNU/Linux server running SANE. If you have a Linux server running SANE, you might as well bypass the Windows machine and print from the server.

The Adjust Output dialog for an Epson printer

Figure 19-49. The Adjust Output dialog for an Epson printer

If you’re using a Windows machine, ...

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