[ale] Scanners

[Joshua Kite]

My Epson CX3200 all-in-one printer/scanner was picked up by Xandros 3 OC
without any troubles.  Granted, I never tried to get the buttons on the
scanner configured, but I was able to use the KDE scanning software which
Xandros includes (sorry, can't remember the name of the front end right now)
without any problem.

Those Epson all-in-ones are pretty inexpensive - I got mine new for
something like $50.  Granted, the CX3200 is a couple of years old, but it's
good enough for what I need to do.

Josh Kite

On 1/24/06, Jim <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:
>
> 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:
> >
> >
> >>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.  :)
> >>
> >>
> >
> >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.
> >
> >you should probably look at the sane project, here's a good how-to:
> >
> >http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2395
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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