> > It might help, if we try further requests under a corporate EMail address.
>
> Probably not. Minolta (and most of the other Japanese corporations)
> are *extremely* tight-lipped about their products and specs. My
> company does quite a bit of printer (and scanner) development, and
> getting vendors to give you documentation is generally quite
> difficult, even when you say you're going to potentially bring them
> millions of new customers...
>
> FWIW, if someone wants to send me their contact info at Minolta (and
> other vendors) I can try to get the documentation under NDA and do
> backends for those scanners...
Will documentation under NDA allow you to write GPL source code? Better
check that before starting off.
Hugo.
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