On Monday 23 October 2000 18:17, Kester Clegg wrote:
Hi all,
my mother's machine, I discovered to my dismay, doesn't have a USB port. She's running SuSE 6.4 and wants me to investigate buying a printer and a scanner for her. What are her best options? The printer isn't the problem, and apparently folk on this list have had good results with the Epson 760 colour printer. She can go beyond the most basic items, but the question I'm most confused about is whether to go SCSI or not with her scanner? Some scanners come with a SCSI card - anyone tried such packages under SuSE? Apparently these aren't *proper* SCSI cards and might not work for Linux?
If SCSI *isn't* a sensible price / performance issue (i.e. I have to buy a proper SCSI card out of the money allocated for the printer and scanner), is there a way to set up a parallel printer and scanner combination under SuSE which works?
Can anyone tell me a reasonable printer / scanner combination to buy her?
Hi, I got rid of my Agfa Snapscan 1212U and bought an Epson 1200S scanner. I added this to a Domex SCSI card which came with my Mirai CD Burner. SuSE 6.4 and 7.0 both installed and configured everything automatically. The scanner originally came with a cheap Adaptec card which also worked OK. Then i realised that i had 2 cards taking 2 PCI slots for a device each when each actually supported 8 devices. Doh!! I would recommend the Epson Perfection 1200S. Stu -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq