On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Wolfram Heider wrote: > Guiseppe, > > Nancy meanwhile chose a Brother MFC 5440 CN (multi-functional device - cheap > but.... hmhm) and seems to be happy with it. > > Since ADF-scanners are of growing importance in daily work (not only in huge > digitalization-projects as that of google) and there probably is a broader > interest for it here is a short survey of the results of the quick inquiry I > made to be able to give her some advice - only pure ADFs no MFDs and only > models currently available in store: > > as you said, Fujitsu is a good address for scanners of this type. There are > really expensive models but also two ones in the affordable region: the > Fujitsu 5110C and the 4120C (pricing from 600 to 1000 Dollars). Sane-support > is basic and as far I can see the maintainer of the backend Allan Noah is > working on further improvement.
the 4120C2 is better at recovering from usb errors than the 4120C, which has been discontinued. i also find the newer unit to be slightly faster in my app (20 ppm vs 19). all lower-end fujitsus have a 'fax machine' type top-feed adf. this does seem to have more jams than the tray-feed style. the 5110C has rubber rollers in places that the 4120c has plastic, which seems to help a little. i have been looking at the panasonic KV-S2026C lately. i like the paper path better than the fujitsus, but sane support seems minimal for more advanced features. similar price to the 4120C2. have not actually tried it yet. allan > > Then: Avision. The AV 600U, AV 610 and the AV 220 (pricing from 400 to 700 > dollars) are rated good or even complete in sane-support. > > Finally one may consider an Epson 3170 with an > additional offered 30-sheet-ADF-unit (total price 500 dollars) - supported by > iscan. > > Maybe there are some more but surely not very much. > > Hope this may of any help for those looking out for ADFs running under sane. > > Greetings > Wolfram Heider > > > Am Dienstag, 16. August 2005 14:46 schrieb Giuseppe Sacco: > >> Hi Nancy, >> I think your question already appeared on this list so you might have a >> look at the list archives. >> >> Il giorno sab, 13/08/2005 alle 09.44 -0400, Nancy Anthracite ha scritto: >> [...] >> >>> All this leads up to my question. We have some volunteers working on >>> developing the software to do that scanning now, and we are looking for a >>> cross platform solution. We feel that using SANE is the logical choice, >>> but we need some help choosing a scanner or group go scanners that can be >>> used from both Windows and Linux and maybe even eventually with OS X as >>> seamlessly as possible using SANE. We would like to choose scanners that >>> have sheet feeders, and ideally, a range of scanners from high speed >>> business to very small business type for no more than a $200. Having >>> scanners that are easy to get running properly is much more important >>> than having a wide range of choices. >> >> [...] >> >> Anyway I had very bad experiences using SANE on Windows with cheep >> scanners, mainly because these scanners require the libusb library. This >> library is working very well on linux but is absolutely not stable (at >> least for uwing it with SANE) on Windows. >> >> About scanner with ADF support, you might want to try the fujitsu (they >> have both USB and SCSI interface) and they are well supported by SANE, >> but they are expensive compared to what you asked. >> >> Regards, >> Giuseppe > > -- "so don't tell us it can't be done, putting down what you don't know. money isn't our god, integrity will free our souls" - Max Cavalera
