Hi Norman, I found a scanner Canon Canoscan Lide 20 for three Euros on a flee market. It is working fine and has a maximum resolution of 600x1200 dpi. I did some reproduction of photographs with it . After post processing with The Gimp, the reproductions were better than the originals - from the 50s and 60s. O.K I am 48 and most of the photos were taken before my birth.
I am using suse 10.3 an Xsane is no problem. Try to find a used Canon Lide scanner. Good luck, Bernd gimp-user-requ...@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu schrieb: On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:04 AM, norman <nor...@littletank.org> wrote: > > I am about to put my hand in my pocket and buy a scanner for scanning > > photographs into GIMP. I am having great difficulty in finding whether > > or not the scanners I can afford work with XSane. I go to Google, find > > various lists but there is no indication how up to date they are.Please > > help a poor old man make a good purchase. I can go up to ?100 sterling. > > > > Norman > I recently found a used flatbed scanner for USD$15.00. It is a CanoScan LiDE 35. I see all sorts of used flatbed scanners at the thrift shops for USD$10-15. It does a good job. The 4 buttons on it don't work in Debian, but that's okay... XSane has all the buttons you'll need! http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html When I was in the used-computer shop, I simply asked the proprietor to look-up the CanoScan LiDE 35 on the Internet and he did. My $15 CanoScan LiDE 35 has the exact same form-factor as the one in the retail store selling for over $100. If it's listed on the above sane-mfgs.html page, it should be good! -- b h a a l u u at g m a i l dot c o m Kid on Bus: What are you gonna do today, Napoleon?Napoleon Dynamite: Whatever I feel like I wanna do. Gosh! _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
