[plug] Photo Scanner...

[David Dartnall]

Bernd Felsche wrote:
> David Dartnall <darts at dialix.com.au> wrote:
>
>   
>> Scanners in my price range ($150 +-) noted on the Sane website as having 
>> Linux drivers and being currently available, seem to be Canoscan lide 
>> 20/30 and Epson V200/350 photo - all of which receive the half-hearted 
>> recommendation of "good" rather than the more desirable "complete".
>> Does anyone have some advice to give please relating to model and 
>> supplier - I'm sick of having to boot into XP to use my Canon scanner!
>>     
>
> Which Canon do you have?
>
> There's a commercial Linux utility that I've used called "Vuescan"
> <http://www.hamrick.com/> It's not an alternative to "sane" :-)
>
> It drives my olde SCSI-based CanoScan FS2710 pretty well.
>   
It's a Lide 80 Bernd, probably past it's use-by date, and I have
a printer so don't really need an MFC - apart from the room
it would take on the desk.

And many thanks to all who took the trouble to respond - I think
I'll buy one of the Lide 20/25/30 range in view of your comments.

BTW, further to my recent post re old computer mags while waiting
for Adrian Chadd to make arrangements to pick 'em up for the
Uni Library, I was reading one of the ads in 80 Microcomputing
for January 1982: A company called Alpha Byte Computer Products
offering a 'FIVE MEGABYTE EXTERNAL WINCHESTER HARD DRIVE: $2795
Boy, how things have changed!

Regards
Dave Dartnall