On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 17:53 -0500, Fred A. Miller wrote:

Teruel de Campo MD wrote:

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On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 20:06 +0000, John Layt wrote:

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Does anybody have a recommendation for a flatbed scanner, connected via USB2 that works flawlessly with Linux (openSUSE 10.3 in particular) and is still on sale (especially in Europe/Germany)? Almost anything from HP will be supported, except their very cheapest models which cut a few corners. They're the gold standard for manufacturer based

On Thursday 22 November 2007, Lenz Grimmer wrote: printer & scanner support under linux.

Epson reportedly also has fairly good support.

John.

John,

This is not my experience few month ago. Things might have changed. When I looked into HP scanners you could run most of the all in one devices (fax, printer, scanner) but there was not support for any of the high end single purpose scanner. That's why I end up getting the Epson 4990 photo.

http://hp-linux.cern.ch/support/devscanner.php3

Terry, I have the 4490 Photo which is an EXCELLENT scanner, but Iscan limits me to only a max. of 2400DPI, when the printer is capable of 4800x9600. Are you limited in the 4990 Photo as well, and will it scan negatives properly with conversion?

Fred, 1. Yes with vuescan I can go to 4800 and that should be the same with yours. Ain't fast :) Vuescan is also very nice to scan slides and negatives and support the use of the slide trays. It is a well polished product. I bough the license. 2. I choose the 4990 because I can run sane without proprietary drivers under opensuse 10.3 64b. Initially using suse 10.2 I tried the proprietary drivers and I think I have to install also some 32b libraries and work well. I did not see any advantages but I did not test high resolutions because I do not use them. 3. The sane backend has bug that prevents you from going to high resolution. Although I can see in both xsane and kooka resolutions up to 3200 it does not work. I can get 1400 or a little more and then complains that "can not start scanner out of memory" which of course is not true (I have 2GB and plenty of space) I saw this thread: https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=303493&group_id=30186&atid=410366 So if you can go to 2400 using the epson drivers you are doing better than me using sane. 4. I also installed the win software that came with the scanner under VMware and works very well although I do not use it since I discover vuescan. My interest were scan slides and many at the time. Regards, -=terry=- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org