Alex wrote: > Hello Linux folkz, > > My old 7 y.o. HP scanner just gave the ghost, and I'm looking for a new one. > Could somebody please recommend, based on the personal experience, which make > or > model of a modern flatbed scanner preferably with the document feeder and > either > USB or Network interface or both will work flawlessly with Linux. > > Most of the supporter scanners listed here > http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html > are either severely outdated or no longer in production. > And even those which have supported Status as "Complete" may not produce > expected image quality. > > My old scanner ScanJet 6390C, which supported Status was "Complete", from the > day one was always producing a pinkish vertical stripe along the left edge of > the scanned image, which I had to crop to remove this annoyance. I was using > XSANE as a front end interface for this scanner. > May be you have had more pleasant experience with scanning in Linux. > > Thank you in advance for any hint or advise, > > Alex > Alex I am running a HP OfficeJet 7310 which is supported under the newer kernels, to scan, copy, print, and fax (all in color or back and white) - quite happy with it - it even reads my camera's memory card.
I am running both Linux 2.6.22.19 and 2.6.27 at the moment (Mandriva 2008 and 2009) on Intel based machines. Hope that helps Regards Fred James _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
