Re: Scanners

2007-03-19 Thread Daniel Feiglin
Thanks for the replies! I just parted with the princely sum of NIS 312 for a Canon Lide 25. Oh, well if it doesn't shape up, I can always put it on my wife's Windonkey. There are a couple of other similar supported cheapies like these: Genius 1200XE - NIS 243 Genius HR7 - NIS 389 Plustek 1200 -

Re: Scanners

2007-03-19 Thread Julian Daich
El lun, 19-03-2007 a las 09:22 +0200, Daniel Feiglin escribió: There are a couple of other similar supported cheapies like these: Genius 1200XE - NIS 243 Genius HR7 - NIS 389 Be careful! There were a lot of concerns regarding Genius scanners at the Ubuntu forums.

Re: Scanners

2007-03-19 Thread Peter
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Daniel Feiglin wrote: I just parted with the princely sum of NIS 312 for a Canon Lide 25. Oh, well if it doesn't shape up, I can always put it on my wife's Windonkey. There are a couple of other similar supported cheapies like these: Genius 1200XE - NIS 243 Genius HR7

Re: Scanners

2007-03-19 Thread Amos Shapira
On 19/03/07, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: about the rest. Also why aren't brand names like 'Dork' (vs. 'Genius') and 'Minustek' (vs 'Plustek') more popular. They certainly attract attention. Who said they aren't? What about Bug for a place to buy software or a defunct virus computer shop

Re: Scanners

2007-03-19 Thread Daniel Feiglin
I did two checks: I checked the Sane site for each item. I only paid attention to scanners with good or complete support, of which there were many. My problem was, which of them (within my nominated price/performance range) are available locally and from where. (Not many!) Your remark about the

Re: Scanners

2007-03-19 Thread Peter
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Amos Shapira wrote: On 19/03/07, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: about the rest. Also why aren't brand names like 'Dork' (vs. 'Genius') and 'Minustek' (vs 'Plustek') more popular. They certainly attract attention. Who said they aren't? What about Bug for a place to buy

Re: Scanners

2007-03-18 Thread Peter
Imho, buy an all-in-one machine from HP etc. It all works great under Linux with cups hpijs and sane. The price is about $100. You get everything in one box (even a copier). Mine is a HP-1315 and I paid even less than $100 at Office Depot at the time (with rebate + it was a gift but that's

Re: Scanners

2007-03-18 Thread Oded Arbel
On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 14:12 +0200, Daniel Feiglin wrote: Hello folks! I am looking for a low end USB flatbed scanner = NIS 1000, mostly as a fax front end and for scanning documents. No fancy photography is required. The sort of unit I have in mind should have resolution 1200x2400 or

Re: Scanners

2007-03-18 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sunday 18 March 2007, Daniel Feiglin wrote: Hello folks! I am looking for a low end USB flatbed scanner = NIS 1000, mostly as a fax front end and for scanning documents. No fancy photography is required. An examination of the Sane site, http://www.sane-project.org/ as well as a look at

Re: Scanners

2007-03-18 Thread Shlomo Solomon
I've been using a Mustek 1200 UB for several years with no problems. Resolution is less than you specify (I think 600X1200), but for faxing and document scanning, it's more than enough. Even for OCR, I don't use the highest resolution. It sells for about 250 Shekels. NOTE that there is a

Re: Scanners

2007-03-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 18/03/07, Daniel Feiglin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello folks! I am looking for a low end USB flatbed scanner = NIS 1000, mostly as a fax front end and for scanning documents. No fancy photography is required. An examination of the Sane site, http://www.sane-project.org/ as well as a look at