[ale] Scanners

[James P. Kinney III]

Load up your fav distro onto a laptop with a good USB port and head out
to the parts store to play with the demo models. As long as SANE sees it
you're golden. Make sure SANE is current and the USB stuff in the kernal
is all loaded up.

BTW, I have an Epson Perfection 2400 Photo that worked perfectly out of
the box with SANE.


On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 13:41 -0500, Jim wrote:
> Thanks for the tips, guys.  $450 is a bit higher than I wanted to pay.  
> I have probably only scanned less than 100 documents/pictures on this 
> one since I bought it, oh so many years ago.  And $90 for the software 
> is probably not a great idea either.  Paul, I've seen that site, that's 
> where I picked up on the fact I couldn't find a current production 
> scanner in the list of supported scanners.
> 
> Maybe I'll just grab one and hope Linux eventually catches up.
> 
> Jim.
> 
> Paul Cartwright wrote:
> 
> >On Tue January 24 2006 9:47 am, Jim wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Has anyone purchased a scanner recently that has a Linux driver
> >>available?  I'd sure like to not have to use Windows, besides I
> >>suspect the new scanners won't have drivers for Win98SE, which is
> >>the only thing I've got, if you don't count my laptop.  :)
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >I have an Epson Perfection 4180 Photo scanner. When I first got it, 
> >SUSE did not support it at all, that was SUSE 9.1 . I worked on a beta 
> >version of the sane front & backend programs, and now it does work.
> >
> >you should probably look at the sane project, here's a good how-to:
> >
> >http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2395
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> 
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