[lug] scanner recommendation request

[Ferdinand Schmid]

Daniel,

If you can find an old commercial scanner then you may find speed on an older
unit.  Otherwise you will be better off with a modern unit.  My Epson scanner
(about 2 years old) beats our one year older SCSI model that we have at the
office without a problem.  USB2 is pretty fast - in fact it is about as fast
as FireWire.  Most current scanners offer USB and firewire.  SANE on SuSE made
configuration trivial.

Ferdinand

--On Wednesday, March 31, 2004 11:51:56 AM -0700 Daniel Webb <lists at danielwebb.us> wrote:

> I'm looking for a scanner to use with Linux, but don't even know where to
> start.  My requirements are that it be:
> 
> 1) Fast.  This seems to mean I need to get a SCSI scanner.  I already have
> a good SCSI card which has 2 or 3 kinds of SCSI connectors on it.
> 
> 2) Cheap, old, tried-and-true.  Something from Ebay that will be cheap,
> but very well supported and last forever.  Think HP Laserjet 4 or IBM
> Thinkpad 600E.
> 
> Quality and resolution are secondary.  I want to use this to scan a lot of
> old articles and maybe even a book or two very very quickly.  The faster
> per scan the better.
> 
> Daniel
> 
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