Everyone here is down with flu symptoms, church at home, sitting at the pc is medicinal for a geek!
Epson 640 usb. Solid cheap and works out of the box with 8.0. As do most of the other Epsons (the 1660 looks real good if you can afford it) steve
I tried to learn about Linux & scanners at: http://www.mostang.com/sane/ The 1660 doesn't show up on the SANE list, the 1650 does. The SANE man page http://www.mostang.com/sane/man/sane-epson.5.html notes that the Perfection 600 and Perfection 1250 are not supported -- no explanation why so no way to know what may be present in unlisted and/or new scanners that may render them similarly incompatible with SANE. Are you using SANE or some other Linux backend? What features are available and which are missing? I see 48 bit features at Epson but SANE appears to max-out at 24, what is your experience? I want to able to do basic scans, pass-thru scanner-to-printer copying, and scanner-to-fax. Have you been successful with all of these? Thanks! doc -- Micro$soft-Free Computers: Desktop PC: Linux-SuSE 8.0 & StarOffice 6.0 Handheld PC/PDA: Sharp Zaurus 5000d w/Linux OS Better, faster, more secure, less costly, user upgradable. "And God said, let there be light ... "