scanner recommendation

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 09:32:09AM -0700, Abidel Bassie-Cripps wrote:
> We have two flat-bed scanners, both working on Ubuntu. One is a Canon (lide 60) on Ubuntu Dell 32bit and the other is an Acer (640U) on Ubuntu amd64. We also have a bother mfc-5440cn (all in one) working on Ubuntu amd64. All three scanners are working great with Gimp.

Unfortunately sane says that the 60 was the last model to be supported.
The lide 70, 80, 90 and 100 are all unsupported, as is apparently
every other canon scanner listed at canada computers (that's 4 models
not supported).

They list two epson's as well (the V30 and V300).  Those do actually
work with linux, but only through the use of a plugin from avasys which
is listed as not DFSG.  Not sure what that involves.  Sane lists the
support for those two epsons as 'good' but with the note that they
require the non DFSG filter to work.  Apparently the V700 from epson is
supported in status 'good' with sane, but they sell for about $650.

I tried the old multifunction crapbox HP I have sitting around, and
much to my surprise when I plugged it in linux had a working scanner
(the printer and copy function are quite broken on the thing so they
won't work anymore).

> Good luck in your search.
> 
> Our bother mfc-5440cn colour printing is failing. If anyone knows of a compatible  colour printer. Please let me know. We are looking to keep our budget to under $100. We have been using this site: http://www.openprinting.org, to help us find which are compatible.

Well the Epson Stylus C88+ is about $100 and is listed as supported
perfectly using the gutenprint drivers.

The Epson Stylus Photo R280 is listed as mostly working (not sure what
part isn't working perfectly).  It too is about $100.

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