Livio, I have been looking for an scanner for almost a month. My first approach was to print a list of the scanners supported by sane. Well most of them are old and discontinue models with very few exceptions. Furthermore more and more companies are trying to get into the linux business and are producing proprietary drivers (which is great). Well here few points that may help you. 1. Epson has always been seen as a linux friendly. Besides they produce high quality scanners. Some of the newer scanner are supported by sane and all of them are supported by their proprietary drivers. To be on the safe side I choose the Epson 4990 Photo. This is a very high quality scanner only surpass by the V-700. The 4990 is both supported under sane and also with its own drivers. For me this was the most important factor. I plug it and its working great under sane. Eventually I will see how it does with the Epson drivers. The other Epsons like the less expensive 4490 and the more expensive V-700 are not supported by sane only by the Epson drivers. BTW xsane and Kooka both scanner application installed in SuSE 10.2 work great. These are the steps: I plug the scanner. A windows came saying new hardware if I wanted to configure. I say yes and it was all done. I love it. 2. You will find all-in-one and only scanners. The all-in-one scanning is of less quality. Interestingly in the case of HP they are supported by sane but the only HP newer scanners are not and they do not have drivers. So if you want HP go with all-in-one or be sure you have drivers. 3. I found that Epson, HP and Brother seems to be committed to linux. All have some linux support. I was very impressed by a Brother all-in-one duplex printer, duplex fax and duplex scanner (ADF) with wireless and wired network connection (MFC 8860DN and the wireless ??). I saw some thread saying that it works very well all the features under linux. In my case I do have xerox duplex color printer so I did not need it. 4. Here are few important links: http://www.freecolormanagement.com/sane/index.html http://www.avasys.jp/english/linux_e/dl_scan.html http://hp-linux.cern.ch/support/devscanner.php3 http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/index.html 5. The Epson 4990 photo is a little pricy when you compare with other scanners but the quality and features are great. I am glad I went for it. http://www.kenrockwell.com/epson/4990.htm http://www.photo-i.co.uk/Reviews/interactive/Epson%204990/Page%204.htm I scanned old photographs and also a bunch of slides to include in my Impress presentation and everything went perfect. Of course I do not need a huge resolution for this type of scanning. Besides the use as a scanner in my case I am going to eliminate the fax line and the fax machine. Now with the modem-fax pci and the scanner I do not need the rest. Xsane application was great to produce and send the fax. In summary I am very happy with it. HTH -=terry(Denver)=- On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 18:46 +0000, Lívio Cipriano wrote:
Hi all,
Any suggestions for an USB 2.0 scanner for Linux?
-- Regards, Lívio Cipriano
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