On Tue, 2021-07-06 at 17:36 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > I've pretty much given up on linux and scanning. My current all-in- > one Epson Artisan 725 claimed to have a linux driver, but it never > worked. I do all my scanning on a windows (the Epson is a network > device) virtual machine, and save the scanned images to a samba > share hosted on the fedora system where I actually want the scans. I have an Canon Pixma all-in-one, that I really only bought as it could print onto DVDs (I work in video production, and be able to give a client a nicely labelled disc is a good thing). As an inkjet printer it's so-so, so I use a HP laser for real printing on paper, and both are directly supported by CUPs. The scanner is okay, but I had to install scangear to use the scanner, from Canon's own website. It's childishly basic software, and okay for my general needs (e.g. scan a document and email someone a copy), but would be useless for someone who wanted good graphical scanning of photos (there's NO image controls, at all). For what it's worth, even on a Mac, which the Pixma fully supports, the scanning software is woeful. I don't use Windows, so I can't compare. I still have an ancient Mustek standalone scanner, that was fully supported by SANE, and you could do all the manual tweaking you wanted even though the cheap scanner wasn't all that brilliant. It was some generic scanner that was sold under a variety of different brandnames. Unless you really want an all-in-one, then separates are usually the better way to go. Better supported, and when just one part of the hardware dies, you only need to replace that one. Even some all-in-one devices couldn't directly print what they scanned, the computer had to do it for them. Though that's less prevalent, these days. And in my case, the unavoidable greater-than two-minutes print cleaning routine when I merely want to scan a page to file, is damn annoying. I dare say that when the ink runs dry (without even being used), it'll probably refuse to scan documents. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.31.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jun 10 13:32:12 UTC 2021 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
