Thanks for the suggestions. To relieve the stress of urgency I brought up a windows system and scanned the needed documents with my older HP 5100C scanner, whose parallel interface is the problem with Sane. I have found that there is more scanner support that I had thought by using HPLIP, which seems to be included in the Ubuntu distribution. That seems to support many of the all-in-one machines out of the box and is probably the answer to my problem. I have a fairly steep learning curve to go through since I knew nothing in the beginning, but now I can think it through more carefully without a project hanging over my head.
As to buying multiple machines and returning them, I would not. Having been in other retail environments, it's a burden on a retailer to turn his new stock into "open box" stock which he may then have to sell at a steep discount. I believe that it's only fair to limit my purchases to those that I might reasonably be expected to keep and limit returns to the absolute minimum. In the long run this may benefit me by keeping the retailers overhead down and his doors open when I need him. Thanks again for helping me with my decision. Matt On Nov 17, 11:21 pm, "Robert Citek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Ematthe1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think the solution must > > use USB since I would like it to be transportable among machines where > > USB the common hardware interface. > > Any suggestion will be gratefully received. > > Go to Best Buy (or equivalent). Buy a scanner. Try it out. Keep it > if you like it. If not, return it and get another one. Watch out for > restocking fees and return periods. To save on the number of trips, > buy more than one at a time (e.g. four or five.) > > Good luck and let us know how things go. > > Regards, > - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
