On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Jelle de Jong <jelledejong at powercraft.nl> wrote: > Hi Allan, > > m. allan noah wrote: >> I have not seen any business card scanners with a 50 card input tray. >> In fact, most card sized scanners are single sheet simplex. You might >> have to move up to something like an A6 or A4 sized scanner to get >> multi-page duplex. > > You are right. I think 50 page business card (250 g/m2) are a bit to > much to ask, but but an ADF for 10 times A8 (74 ? 52 mm) (250 g/m2) > business cards would be nice. > > I also did some searching, and found that even the most sick priced >>3000 euro scanners that do scan A8 (business card) sized media do not > indicate that they are capable of scanning 250 g/m2 paper... So this > seems to be an useless parameter to select a new scanner on...?
most desktop and larger scanners can handle the heavy paper. > Last year I replaced my standalone HP ScanJet 6300c ADF scanner (support > broke with a new sane version) with a new HP Officejet J5780 > http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?product=3301296 > > This printer with ADF only cost 130 euro and scans very nice. I did have > regression issues (HP messed up there code) with the network saned > server systems. But support of Julien BLACHE has been really good so now > I got a very usefull scanner setup togheter with my pct-scanner-scripts > available in Debian. I manage a few hundred scans per week, duplex is > not really needed, I got a nice software rearrange duplex feature. > > > I looked a bit further and found the following two options: > > ScanSnap S300 (between 200 and 320 euro) > http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/computing/peripherals/scanners/scansnap/s300.html > > ^^^ that looks like an useful addition to my scanner setup. I want to > buy this one but I am so afraid I will not get the sane driver features > I need because of an under developed driver. Are my fears justified!? > http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6619498&postcount=11 > http://www.sane-project.org/man/sane-epjitsu.5.html > > If somebody can convince me that missing features that are supported by > the hardware will be added to the driver then I will buy this unit... > > ScanSnap S1500 (between 420 and 496 euro) > http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/computing/peripherals/scanners/scansnap/scansnap-s1500.html > > ^^^ this scanner is also an option but its lot of money. I got perfect > results with a 130 euro all-in-one but no A8 scan support. Would 450 > euro be worth it? It driver seems to be developed with the availiable > featurs. http://www.sane-project.org/man/sane-fujitsu.5.html well- i wrote both of those drivers, so i guess i am in a unique position to respond :) the S300 is epson-based, and uses a rather dumb protocol. It also requires a firmware upload, is entirely reverse engineered. It has a smaller paper tray and is slower than other fujitsus. Most of the rest of the fujitsu machines (including the S1500) are much smarter, and I actually have documentation for them, and support a huge list of options. Unless you absolutely need the smaller footprint of the S300 (or the ability to run on USB power), I would definitely buy a 'normal' fujitsu. If money is an issue, see if you can still find an S500 or S510, or buy a used or refurbished fi-series machine (fi-5110C, fi-5120C, fi-6130). They show up on ebay quite often... allan -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
