scanner recommendations

Julian C. Dunn - Lists lists-JN5fZfbfKAtWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org
Sat Apr 17 02:25:17 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 17:58, James Knott wrote:
> Noah John Gellner wrote:
> > I have decided to buy a scanner. Its main use will be for copying
> > documents and faxing. However, I would like the have the potential to do
> > some imaging work. 
> > 
> > Does anyone have recommendations for a scanner which will work well with
> > linux, is under $100, and works well? 
> 
> On Boxing day, I bought an Epson Perfection 1260 Photo Scanner for $80, 
> which works well with Linux.  It even works with Windows!  ;-)

I also highly recommend Epson's scanners. I have an Epson Perfection 610
from a little while ago which I bought for < $100 and it has worked
perfectly with xsane from day one. This was not the case with the UMAX
SCSI scanner I used to own, which worked half the time and once failed
outright, necessitating a complete replacement (it was still under
warranty but nevertheless it was inconvenient.)

- Julian

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