[ale] Scanners

[Jim]

Thanks for the tips, guys.  $450 is a bit higher than I wanted to pay.  
I have probably only scanned less than 100 documents/pictures on this 
one since I bought it, oh so many years ago.  And $90 for the software 
is probably not a great idea either.  Paul, I've seen that site, that's 
where I picked up on the fact I couldn't find a current production 
scanner in the list of supported scanners.

Maybe I'll just grab one and hope Linux eventually catches up.

Jim.

Paul Cartwright wrote:

>On Tue January 24 2006 9:47 am, Jim wrote:
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>>Has anyone purchased a scanner recently that has a Linux driver
>>available?  I'd sure like to not have to use Windows, besides I
>>suspect the new scanners won't have drivers for Win98SE, which is
>>the only thing I've got, if you don't count my laptop.  :)
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>I have an Epson Perfection 4180 Photo scanner. When I first got it, 
>SUSE did not support it at all, that was SUSE 9.1 . I worked on a beta 
>version of the sane front & backend programs, and now it does work.
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>you should probably look at the sane project, here's a good how-to:
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>http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2395
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