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Good scanner, good linux support? Your experience?

post #1 of 9
5/14/08 at 11:59pm
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hello linuxians, I was thinking about buying a good scanner with good linux support. what do you suggest?

I don't have (and never had) a scanner, I'm clueless. I don't know what to look on scanners besides the obvious (res, light type etc.), so I will start on linux support, something I guess will limit choices the most and make my pick faster.

thanks!
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post #2 of 9
5/15/08 at 12:23am
Hmm I believe HP has decent support if I remember right, and you don't even have to deal with their cruddy software on Mac or Windows to boot

If you are looking for high quality scans Epson would be the company I would look at, though I am not to sure about their Linux support.

So I guess it depends in part in how you will be using the scanner, how much quality you are looking for, etc.

Seablade
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post #3 of 9
5/15/08 at 12:25am
Hmm a nice useful link for you in your research...

http://www.sane-project.org/

Seablade
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post #4 of 9
5/25/08 at 4:47pm
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Late follow-up, being busy... I forgot to say that... The scanner will be used to (order of importance): old printed photos (negatives not a must, but nice to have), scan books and send faxes (people still use this jurassic tech).

Restricting the choices on the egg, I've found (Canon and other models ruled out, none supp. or not wanted):
Epson
4490 ("good", requires some non-free plugin: iscan-plugin-gt-x750) $150
V200 (same thing, iscan-plugin-gt-f670) $90
V350 (idem, iscan-plugin-gt-f700) $120
HP
G3010 ("basic") $99

Probably Epson (duh). Honestly, they all look the same to me, but the V350 has this "high rise lid", which I guess is good for scanning books.

Honestly, the non-free plugin requirement doesn't appeal to me. I prefer to stick with apt-something (pacman something, in my case). If not, only if strictly necessary (I use Arch, but dual boot, so not really afraid of extensive cmdline work).

If anyone have any other options, plz tell. thanks.

// edit: btw, is there such a thing as network scanner (like printers)? I've google the term, found some things, but seems no scanner has a network port (only $$$$, professional ones... looked on newegg)...
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post #5 of 9
5/25/08 at 6:20pm
Office Multifunction devices you can find network capability on networks for scanners. I have a HP OfficeJet that has this, though to be honest I found the network support of that printer to be very poor. As a result I have it hooked direct into my server and I scan straight to SD cards.

What you CAN do with sane is share a scanner over a network if it is hooked up to a linux machine(Possibly others, not sure).

Seablade
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post #6 of 9
6/3/08 at 2:54pm
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Thanks seablade, that's what I really needed (other things I can deal with Google). I'll probably go Epson...
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post #7 of 9
6/10/08 at 10:00am
I use an HP Scanjet 2400 which doesn't work on Linux but I just boot up a virtual machine on VMware and scan from there. I'm planning to buy a new one soon which'll work natively on Linux.
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post #8 of 9
6/10/08 at 10:30pm
My HP 2610 all-in-one works well with Linux. I am able to perform all of the functions without a lot of hassle...
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post #9 of 9
11/18/08 at 10:11pm
HP's peripherals generally have outstanding Linux support, but Epson is not too far behind. I think you have some great choices.

Steer far clear from Agfa. They often do not even release drivers for newer versions of Windows, and will not release enough specs that anyone else can write drivers for them ... yeah, I have a brick of a scanner that won't work except through a Windows 98 or 2000 virtual machine.
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