Linux Scanners

[Taavi Burns]

On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 03:55:31PM -0500, John Moniz wrote:
> I'm intending on treating myself to a scanner soon, but one that is good 
> for photo/film/slide scanning. I'd like to pick a brand that is very 
> Linux friendly, not just a model that is on the USB list. Which company 
> would be good to support? Is Epson as good with scanners as it is with 
> printers?

AFAIK there is one single Epson scanner that does NOT work with Linux.
All of their other ones work, with all the features.  As long as you
avoid that model (old, so you'd only find it second hand), Epson is probably
the safest bet.  My family bought a 1250U a couple of years ago, and it
worked like a hot damn.

> I had a look at an Epson Perfection 1670 Photo scanner that 
> might fit my requirements, although it looks almost too inexpensive. Is 

Certainly double check with the scanner list, but Epson scanners have--since
day one--spoken a single unified language (over parallel, scsi, usb).
It's really the way things ought to be.

(the one that doesn't work is not really an epson printer, but a rebranded
some-other-crappy-scanner)

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