Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.os.linux.misc > #1006

Re: Scanner that works well with linux?

Show all headers | View raw

On 2011-05-01, notbob <notbob@notbob.invalid> wrote:
> On 2011-05-01, John Thompson <john@stolat.os2.dhs.org> wrote:
>
>> I've always had good luck with Epson scanners in linux using sane/xsane.
>
> When I first got my Epson, sane did not have any drivers for it, so I

And when was it that you first got your Epson? When i got mine, about 12
or more years ago, Linux worked fine with it as did the iscan software
that Epson supplied for use of the scanners with Linux. 
The 1660 Photo scanner was also very fast (about 2 sec to scan a page at
300dpi and even at 1600dpi it only took about 10 sec). 
It does only have a USB1.1 communication channel, so the main impediment
seems to be the time it takes to transfer the file, and the internal
memoryin the scanner, so the scanner has to pause sometimes on very fine
scans for the transfer to catch up. 
 
> hadda use an old W98 box.  I finally found an
> iscan-proprietary-drivers rpm pkg and got it working on my Slackware
> box with xsane.  Perhaps they got that straightened out, now.  I
> remember my printer used to be a pain, too, but now takes less
> time/hassle to setup on a linux box than on a windows box.  Linux jes
> keeps getting better.  ;)
>
> nb

Back to comp.os.linux.misc | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar

Thread

Scanner that works well with linux? A Watcher <stocksami@earthlink.net> - 2011-04-30 08:36 -0700
  Re: Scanner that works well with linux? Douglas Mayne <none@invalid.com> - 2011-04-30 16:36 +0000
    Re: Scanner that works well with linux? Tim Watts <tw@dionic.net> - 2011-04-30 18:15 +0100
    Re: Scanner that works well with linux? unruh <unruh@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca> - 2011-04-30 17:42 +0000
  Re: Scanner that works well with linux? notbob <notbob@notbob.invalid> - 2011-04-30 16:47 +0000
  Re: Scanner that works well with linux? despen@verizon.net - 2011-04-30 13:18 -0400
    Re: Scanner that works well with linux? A Watcher <stocksami@earthlink.net> - 2011-04-30 10:43 -0700
      Re: Scanner that works well with linux? unruh <unruh@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca> - 2011-04-30 19:02 +0000
      Re: Scanner that works well with linux? despen@verizon.net - 2011-04-30 15:04 -0400
        Re: Scanner that works well with linux? Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2011-05-01 04:20 +0000
  Re: Scanner that works well with linux? Sam <sam@email-scan.com> - 2011-04-30 12:35 -0500
  Re: Scanner that works well with linux? ray <ray@zianet.com> - 2011-04-30 19:02 +0000
  Re: Scanner that works well with linux? A Watcher <stocksami@earthlink.net> - 2011-04-30 12:16 -0700
    Re: Scanner that works well with linux? despen@verizon.net - 2011-04-30 15:24 -0400
      Re: Scanner that works well with linux? A Watcher <stocksami@earthlink.net> - 2011-04-30 13:54 -0700
    Re: Scanner that works well with linux? unruh <unruh@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca> - 2011-04-30 19:55 +0000
      Re: Scanner that works well with linux? A Watcher <stocksami@earthlink.net> - 2011-04-30 13:52 -0700
    Re: Scanner that works well with linux? "Dave {Reply Address In.Sig}" <noone$$@llondel.org> - 2011-04-30 21:48 +0100
      Re: Scanner that works well with linux? unruh <unruh@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca> - 2011-04-30 22:03 +0000
  Re: Scanner that works well with linux? John Thompson <john@stolat.os2.dhs.org> - 2011-04-30 23:28 -0500
    Re: Scanner that works well with linux? notbob <notbob@notbob.invalid> - 2011-05-01 13:24 +0000
      Re: Scanner that works well with linux? unruh <unruh@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca> - 2011-05-01 15:04 +0000
        Re: Scanner that works well with linux? Kevin the Drummer <nobody@cosgroves.us> - 2011-05-11 00:37 -0500
  Re: Scanner that works well with linux? philo <philo@invalid.not> - 2011-05-01 06:43 -0500

csiph-web