On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:24:46 -0500, Bradley Pursley wrote: > 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. >> > This may not be what you're asking for but I am using a Brother MFC and > Brother has very good Linux support on seemingly most of their products > including their own drivers for Linux. I was able to download and > successfully use their drivers for printing, scanning and faxing. > > If you want to check out what products they have Linux support for, you > can try this Link: > > http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/index.html > > Bradley I confirm. I have a Brother MFC DCP-130 (usb) and works out of the box with the manufacturer drivers and config files. Inexpensive, but ok for documents. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
