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| Todd... |
 Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 10:20 pm |
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Hi All,
My Epson V200 scanner just crapped out on me. I
am going to order a new scanner in the AM. What
do you guys like?
Many thanks,
-T |
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| ray... |
| Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 11:17 pm |
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On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:20:45 -0800, Todd wrote:
Quote: Hi All,
My Epson V200 scanner just crapped out on me. I am going to order a new
scanner in the AM. What do you guys like?
Many thanks,
-T
I like an Epson refurb from the Epson online store. And it doesn't hurt
to check avasys.jp first for compatibility. |
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| Todd... |
| Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 12:54 am |
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ray wrote:
Quote: On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:20:45 -0800, Todd wrote:
Hi All,
My Epson V200 scanner just crapped out on me. I am going to order a new
scanner in the AM. What do you guys like?
Many thanks,
-T
I like an Epson refurb from the Epson online store. And it doesn't hurt
to check avasys.jp first for compatibility.
Thank you for the tip on avasys.jp! The V300 looks good. And
I downloaded that latest driver too.
-T |
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| The Natural Philosopher... |
| Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 10:44 am |
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Todd wrote:
Quote: Hi All,
My Epson V200 scanner just crapped out on me. I
am going to order a new scanner in the AM. What
do you guys like?
Many thanks,
-T
I got an HP scanjet 2100 off ebay. "Fully supported" (right..)
It works. In color. B&W it doesn't.
SANE is crap really - weakest link in the Linux armour.
Go to the sane website and pick one that is fully supported, and expect
10% functionality.
Fortunately GIMP does the rest. |
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| Todd... |
| Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 2:18 pm |
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The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Quote: SANE is crap really - weakest link in the Linux armour.
Like the "Common Unix Printing System" (CUPS), I refer to
SANE as the "Common Unix Scanning System" or CUSS. Sort
speaks for itself. :-)
-T |
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| Unruh... |
| Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 2:34 pm |
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Baron <baron.nospam at (no spam) linuxmaniac.nospam.net> writes:
Quote: Todd wrote:
Hi All,
My Epson V200 scanner just crapped out on me. I
am going to order a new scanner in the AM. What
do you guys like?
Probably one of the most important features is teh speed of scanning--
log at the time per line of the scanners. for example, I originally
bought and Epson 1600 and found it horribly slow, but the cheaper 1200
was much faster-- it has worked well for the past 6 years.
Anyway, pay attention to speed or you will be cursing the scanner.
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Many thanks,
-T
Samsung make good "All in one Laser printer, scanner, copier's" and well
supported.
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Best Regards:
Baron. |
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| ray... |
| Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 4:16 pm |
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On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:18:26 -0800, Todd wrote:
Quote: The Natural Philosopher wrote:
SANE is crap really - weakest link in the Linux armour.
Like the "Common Unix Printing System" (CUPS), I refer to SANE as the
"Common Unix Scanning System" or CUSS. Sort speaks for itself. :-)
-T
Another advantage of the Epson series is that you have your choice of
SANE or the Epson 'iscan' software from avasys.jp. |
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| The Natural Philosopher... |
| Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 8:27 pm |
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Todd wrote:
Quote: The Natural Philosopher wrote:
SANE is crap really - weakest link in the Linux armour.
Like the "Common Unix Printing System" (CUPS), I refer to
SANE as the "Common Unix Scanning System" or CUSS. Sort
speaks for itself. :-)
-T
Ive found CUPS a BIT better.
The trouble is both scanners and printers tend to rely on custom drivers
from the manufactures: They don't do linux ones, much.
Fortunately CUPS now runs on macs, so you can rip off the printer
description files from a mac installation, or even adapt one to your own
use. Writing a scanner definition file for SANE is quite a different matter. |
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| Handover Phist... |
| Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 10:27 pm |
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The Natural Philosopher :
Quote: Todd wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
SANE is crap really - weakest link in the Linux armour.
Like the "Common Unix Printing System" (CUPS), I refer to
SANE as the "Common Unix Scanning System" or CUSS. Sort
speaks for itself. :-)
-T
Ive found CUPS a BIT better.
The trouble is both scanners and printers tend to rely on custom drivers
from the manufactures: They don't do linux ones, much.
Scanners, however, don't have a Postscript equivalent. Many printers
will use it even if no driver is supplied.
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everyone is a prostitute
www.websterscafe.com |
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| Handover Phist... |
| Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 9:53 pm |
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The Natural Philosopher :
Quote: Handover Phist wrote:
The Natural Philosopher :
Todd wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
SANE is crap really - weakest link in the Linux armour.
Like the "Common Unix Printing System" (CUPS), I refer to
SANE as the "Common Unix Scanning System" or CUSS. Sort
speaks for itself. :-)
-T
Ive found CUPS a BIT better.
The trouble is both scanners and printers tend to rely on custom drivers
from the manufactures: They don't do linux ones, much.
Scanners, however, don't have a Postscript equivalent. Many printers
will use it even if no driver is supplied.
Oh yes. Spawn of the devil
postcript.. 'The language that put a 64 bit processor in a printer, long
before a computer' and 'a way to turn 2000 words of text into a few
megabytes of data'
Do you know, its really only since computers have got as good as they
are in the last 3-5 years, that it has actually been useable from my
point of view.
I was forced to use it years past for my laser printer before PCL5
really worked, and I tend to print documents quite a bit larger than
2000 words. It did the job, somewhat like Java does the job.
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Did I do an INCORRECT THING??
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