On Tuesday 29 April 2008, Tom Horsley wrote: >The last time I got a new scanner I spent about a week >correlating the lists of scanners actually available for >purchase with the list of supported devices on the sane >web pages (99.999% of which are models that are out of >production :-). > >Has anyone recently purchased a flatbed scanner with good >linux support? (I mostly want it for documents and such, >not photo or negative scanning). > >The Canoscan LIDE 60 I wound up with at the end of the first >painful search has apparently died the real death. It doesn't >show up as a USB device at all. If it had a fuse, I'd say >it had blown it :-). Naturally they are up to LIDE 90 now >(60 no longer made), and the 90 isn't supported in sane. Tom, I've had great luck so far with an Epson 1250-u. With xsane its done every scan I ever asked it to do now for at least 5 years. While the model numbers may increment so its likely a 1290-u by now, I suspect any of that family would be a dropin replacement for it. Also, its a plustek at heart I believe. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The Poems, all three hundred of them, may be summed up in one of their phrases: "Let our thoughts be correct". -- Confucius -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
