I do not recommend the HP7450C for use with SANE. I spent 18 months getting it working. It worked for a few days, including ADF, but paper jams required me to unplug it and plug it back in to get it working again. After a few days, it made some funny noises, and now the motor seems to fail when powering it on.
I am currently trying to find a new scanner that will work with SANE. Since I haven't been able to find an ADF scanner, I might temporarily get a cheap flatbed until a well-supported ADF scanner comes along. Does anyone know of an ADF scanner that has good SANE support? Or a flatbed scanner? On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 21:30 +0100, Seb wrote: > Hello, > > > > Sorry to bother you, but a quick piece of advice from you would be very > helpful. I see on sane-devel's archives that you use a HP 7450C, > although you have had some trouble with it. > > I plan to buy the exact same model, but I am a bit worried about Sane's > support (under Linux). In particular, I would very much like to know if: > > * the ADF is functionnal with SANE; > > * one can scan on the command-line with 'scanimage' and whether the most > useful options (--brightness, --threshold, --resolution and the like) > are really supported. > > > I have been burnt recently by Sane with an Epson 3170 which is > supposedly fully supported but really isn't; some feedback would be very > much appreciated before buying the HP 7450C. > > > Any other advice on the 7450C would also be welcome ! (Is it fast, is > it inaudible when not working, is it robust, etc.) > > > Thanks in advance ! > Seb. > I do not recommend the HP7450C for use with SANE. I spent 18 months getting > it working. It worked for a few days, including ADF, but paper jams required > me to unplug it and plug it back in to get it working again. After a few > days, it made some funny noises, and now the motor seems to fail when > powering it on. I am currently trying to find a new scanner that will work with SANE. Since I haven't been able to find an ADF scanner, I might temporarily get a cheap flatbed until a well-supported ADF scanner comes along. Does anyone know of an ADF scanner that has good SANE support? Or a flatbed scanner?
