Horst Herb wrote: >> interface: USB-2.0 >> ADF: 50 sheet or larger, >> config: upright, flatbed not desired >> speed: >= 15 ?ppm @ 300 dpi 1-bit, >> ? ? ? ? ? 10 ?ppm @ 300 dpi 256-grayscale, >> ? ? ? ? ? 25+ ppm @ 150 dpi 1-bit >> intangibles: sane support, good reliability reputation >> (esp ADF) >> price range: USD $500 to $1,100 > > I am most impressed with my Avision AV220
Thanks for the tip, I wouldn't have thought to look at an Avision. I'm going to look at this one closely based on the roughly 40% lower price and good driver support you cite. Their main scanner web page has broken image links, and the manual is also missing from the linked ftp site. I would like to read up on the specs and performance under the scan modes I listed; AV220.pdf > The SANE driver works very well; I bought the scanner, plugged it in, > and after adjusting permissions (would only let me scan as root) it just > works - and I mean every single feature the scanner has to offer works > well under SANE. That's good news. Do you use the backend at: http://www.exactcode.de/oss/avision/index.html or the curious binary (.so) at the avision ftp site? 01-19-06 01:43PM 31259 libsane_av220.{D} 01-19-06 01:43PM 31259 libsane_av220.zip 01-19-06 01:43PM 153879 libsane_fb2000.{D} 01-19-06 01:43PM 153879 libsane_fb2000.zip 01-19-06 01:43PM 31261 libsane_fb6000.{D} 01-19-06 01:43PM 31261 libsane_fb6000.zip 01-18-06 01:58PM 34315 libsane_fb6000U.zip 01-17-06 08:44PM 30632 libsane-av220.{D} 01-16-06 08:49PM 95156 libsane-av220.so.{D} > Only problem I have is I still haven't worked out how to pull the second > image from a Duplex scan programmatically from Python, but works fine > using e.g. XSane Awesome, driving scanners with Python! This is exactly where I'm headed, too ;) Are you using sane.py and sane.so included in PIL-1.1.5?
