Re: [SLE] Linux compatable scanner adivice sought

I would highly recommend Epson scanners and particularly the perfection 1650 which is fully SANE compliant and supported, it is fast and produces high quality results. I would suggest that you, regardless of what scanner you purchase, check the following page and its related links to make sure it is supported by the Linux scanner server SANE at : http://www.mostang.com/sane/ And after purchasing the scanner send the manufacturer a short email explaining that the main reason that your purchased the scanner was because there is linux support available for it. Thank them for making design docs available to linux developers and suggest that they start providing Linux drivers for their products as you will not spend money on hardware that is compatable with linux. Also if your in the market for a printer try Epson's stylus C80 its the best. On Tuesday 17 September 2002 04:27 pm, zentara wrote:

On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 17:23:03 +0100

Rajiv Srinivasa wrote:

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I have the Epson Perfection 1240U Photo, which works well with kooka/xsane.

On Tuesday 17 September 2002 16:34, Steven T. Hatton wrote:

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Does anybody have advice on a SuSE compatable scanner for under $150. I am interested in scanning both text for OCR and images with reasonable quality.

I have a scsi UMAX1200S which runs great and is very compatible, but you need a scsi card. P.S. I think scsi is the fastest type of scanner, especially for huge high quality scans which can be up to 100 megs. Try doing that thru a parallel port. I havn't tried USB, but everyone complains about getting USB setup. SCSI is easy. An Advansys card is supported by the kernel source, and are under $30. My advice is to go with SCSI if you can. It may cost you a few extra bucks for an external cable, but you will never have to worry about getting it to run. Plus you get the added benefit of being able to start looking at the bargains in scsi cdrom drives and hard drives.