Hi Could someone recommend a scanner that is easy to install and works nicely under SuSE 7.2? My spouse has Canon FP630C, that is not supported, and I want to buy a new one, that works and is easy to install, just to make her happy with Linux. There is not SCSI-card, but USB is there, so I believe it should be USB...? Jaska.
On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 10:15:56AM +0300, Jaakko Tamminen wrote:
Hi
Could someone recommend a scanner that is easy to install and works nicely under SuSE 7.2?
My spouse has Canon FP630C, that is not supported, and I want to buy a new one, that works and is easy to install, just to make her happy with Linux.
There is not SCSI-card, but USB is there, so I believe it should be USB...?
Jaska.
Maybe I can make your day :) I just bought an Epson Perfection 640U, USB scanner. So far it works just fine with the sane Epson device. BUT! No guarantees expressed or implied. I run Suse 7.2 and kernel 2.4.10. -- Regards Cliff
Hi Things are starting to point towards Epson... What I have heard, is that Epson does give information also for printers of the protocol used etc, so that making drivers for Linux is easier. This seems not to be the case with many other manufacturer. As a result, I will support Epson in future, also in printers etc... Thanx Cliff Jaska. Viestissä Sunnuntai 7. Lokakuuta 2001 13:43, Cliff Sarginson kirjoitti:
On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 10:15:56AM +0300, Jaakko Tamminen wrote:
Hi
Could someone recommend a scanner that is easy to install and works nicely under SuSE 7.2?
My spouse has Canon FP630C, that is not supported, and I want to buy a new one, that works and is easy to install, just to make her happy with Linux.
There is not SCSI-card, but USB is there, so I believe it should be USB...?
Jaska.
Maybe I can make your day :) I just bought an Epson Perfection 640U, USB scanner. So far it works just fine with the sane Epson device.
BUT! No guarantees expressed or implied. I run Suse 7.2 and kernel 2.4.10.
I was looking into this matter as well this weekend. I was about to order, I am going for the epson 1240U. However, there are 2 version of this scanner with (1240U photo) and without photo (1240U). Does anyone know whether this specific photo stuff is supported by Linux? Op zondag 7 oktober 2001 15:44, schreef je:
Hi
Things are starting to point towards Epson...
What I have heard, is that Epson does give information also for printers of the protocol used etc, so that making drivers for Linux is easier.
This seems not to be the case with many other manufacturer.
As a result, I will support Epson in future, also in printers etc...
Thanx Cliff
Jaska.
Viestissä Sunnuntai 7. Lokakuuta 2001 13:43, Cliff Sarginson kirjoitti:
On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 10:15:56AM +0300, Jaakko Tamminen wrote:
Hi
Could someone recommend a scanner that is easy to install and works nicely under SuSE 7.2?
My spouse has Canon FP630C, that is not supported, and I want to buy a new one, that works and is easy to install, just to make her happy with Linux.
There is not SCSI-card, but USB is there, so I believe it should be USB...?
Jaska.
Maybe I can make your day :) I just bought an Epson Perfection 640U, USB scanner. So far it works just fine with the sane Epson device.
BUT! No guarantees expressed or implied. I run Suse 7.2 and kernel 2.4.10.
-- Richard Bos For those who have no home the journey is endless
On Sunday 07 October 2001 03:15, Jaska wrote:
Could someone recommend a scanner that is easy to install and works nicely under SuSE 7.2? My spouse has Canon FP630C, that is not supported, and I want to buy a new one, that works and is easy to install, just to make her happy with Linux.
I can enthusiastically recommend the Epson 1200U, a USB scanner that works well with SuSE and SANE, and gives great scans. This scanner is easy to get working in SuSE. As a general rule, Epsons are known for being easy to set up in Linux. You should still check the SANE page to make sure you have a model that is known to work. It was very easy for me with SuSE 7.2. Some useful documents: http://www.mostang.com/sane/ http://www.freecolormanagement.com/sane/index.html (Epson backend info) http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/tami_usbscanner.html *************************************************** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional KDE 2.1.2 KMail 1.2 Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson@earthlink.net ***************************************************
On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 02:16:11PM -0400, Bryan Tyson wrote:
On Sunday 07 October 2001 03:15, Jaska wrote:
Could someone recommend a scanner that is easy to install and works nicely under SuSE 7.2? My spouse has Canon FP630C, that is not supported, and I want to buy a new one, that works and is easy to install, just to make her happy with Linux.
I can enthusiastically recommend the Epson 1200U, a USB scanner that works well with SuSE and SANE, and gives great scans. This scanner is easy to get working in SuSE.
As a general rule, Epsons are known for being easy to set up in Linux. You should still check the SANE page to make sure you have a model that is known to work.
I believe there is one known model of Epson scanner that will not work since it apparently uses a different protocol than all the other Epson's do .. I cannot remember the model number. Just be sure not to but that one !
It was very easy for me with SuSE 7.2.
Some useful documents:
http://www.freecolormanagement.com/sane/index.html(Epson backend info)
http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/tami_usbscanner.html
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