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Re: Scanner advice

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In article <8809c369-88b2-45b9-9e86-64815e26a91b@googlegroups.com>,
 <lorenzo.franceschini3@gmail.com> wrote:
> Il giorno domenica 7 dicembre 2014 12:15:46 UTC+1, Henrik Carlqvist ha scritto:
> 
> > http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html
> 
> Thanks Henrik, I was already aware of this resource but, as I said, I'm
> looking for an "advice", not a compatibility list (which of course is
> very useful, but includes a lot of out-of-market devices). 
> 
> I would like to receive a recommendation from someone who recently
> bought a scanner and tested it on a modern distro.

I'm using a Microtek "Scanmaker II" -- legal-size, 300dpi, 3-pass,
SCSI-1.  I got it about 15 years ago, and it was used then.  It uses
the SANE "Microtek2" driver IIRC.  The output is OK but _man_ does it
take a while to get there.

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  Re: Scanner advice Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2014-12-07 11:15 +0000
    Re: Scanner advice lorenzo.franceschini3@gmail.com - 2014-12-08 07:35 -0800
      Re: Scanner advice ebenZEROONE@verizon.net (Hactar) - 2015-02-19 19:15 -0500

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