scanner recommendation

[Howard Gibson]

On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 14:35:57 -0400
lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org (Lennart Sorensen) wrote:


> 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.

Lennart,

   I have an Epson V350 here, and I run it using Epson iscan software.  Xsane supports my plotter, but iscan seems to work better.   I had no problems installing iscan.  The only problem I had was finding out that that was what I needed.

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