To, The Sane Developers' List [email protected] My dear illustrious Team Members,
I am planning to buy a Scanner. Only Epson Flatbed scanner appears viable, as in India it seems only Epson has a very good quality of service. I have had a very negative experience with Canon. In amazon.in, I find that Epson Perfection V39 Scanner is mostly sold. There are no HP product at the nearby price range. However, I see at the Sane page: that the said printer is unsupported. But the row shows some comments that could evoke some expectations. I quote the row: Perfection V39 USB 0x04b8/0x013d Unsupported supported by the epkowa backend plus non-free interpreter epson2 (1.0.124 (unmaintained)) sane-epson2 It is probably developed by the manufacturer itself. The question is: will it work for a given Linux system? I have an old Ubuntu system and Knoppix 7.2.0 based on Debian wheezy. Yes, I know that I need to upgrade. I have even downloaded Knoppix 8.5 but haven't installed it on my computer. The older versions presently address all my needs. My Ubuntu system is: Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS Release: 14.04 Codename: trusty Any suggestion on Epson drivers? Any suggestion on any other scanner? The Amazon page for India is: https://www.amazon.in Eagerly awaiting your advice. Regards, Rajib Bandopadhyay A Linux user
