Looking for SCSI Linux Scanners 13
Chacham asks: "There's a lot of scanners out there, and I'd like to buy one. I first checked the Ask Slashdot archives and found this, but at over a year old I thought it might be good for an update.
I'm looking for a SCSI, Linux supported, color scanner. Although price will eventually play a role in which I purchase (probably up to US $500), I would like to hear comments with emphasis on quality. Speed is nice, but unless it's super slow, I'll go for quality. Deja lists scanners in a poll but it doesn't look like there are enough submissions for a real comparison. I was looking at SANE supported scanners. Many are listed as alpha or beta, and only a few as stable. I've been hearing good things about HP scanners, but with alpha support under SANE, I'm not so sure it's a good idea. Although, I guess I don't need to use SANE; are there other good packages out there? "
UMAX (Score:1)
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HP HP HP (Score:1)
Re:HP HP HP (Score:1)
If you want to use HP (Score:1)
I suggest using XVscan [tummy.com]. It costs $50, is supported by a company and is really simple to use.
I have used SANE with beta drivers and have had good luck, very few glitches. So it would not be a bad idea to consider scanners in the beta list. No experience with alpha though.
Microteck X6EL (Score:1)
Beautiful output, works nicely with Sane, up to legal size paper, and the included SCSI card works fine. It's quite fast and affordable as well.
The driver is supposedly still alpha but seems pretty close to stable to me (the preview window has issues with some window managers).
The only unsupported bit is the 'lightlid' which provides backlighting for scanning negatives and slides. Super cool, but still needs work in sane.
Re:HP HP HP (Score:1)
Kewl.
I'm actually looking at a 6350c. It, together with the transparency adapter, costs just over 500, from a Pricewatch quote that I just checked.
Another thing on my mind, is playing with images. I'm going to have to seriously try TheGimp, but, being I have never relaly tried it in the past, I wonder if it will scale up to PSP or Photoshop. (I'm assuming it does; I have just never tried it for more than a few minutes.)
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Re:UMAX (Score:2)
How about... a parallel scanner! (Score:1)
See the website (Score:2)
Supported Scanners [mostang.com] Some USB scanners are now supprted, but expect USB support to be reworked in a year or two once people figgure out how USB works best. (ie right now USB is in a state of quick hacks and amazement that things work. Things are looking better, as work is going on, but I get the feeling that the programers are not sure how to do USB best/right
There are scsi scanners that are unsupported. There are one or two parrelle scanners that happen to work. There are usb scanners that will never work, and usb scanners where the manufacture hopes they will work soon.
I have a microtek V6USL which works just fine, though only were the very latests backend (which I don't belive is intigrated into any current versuion of SANE yet)
some UMAX scanners (Score:1)
Color management in Linux (Score:2)
I wonder how difficult implementing ICM on Linux would be. I have been trying to find out how holds any patents on the subject, but have failed thus far. Anyone know anything about this?
dufke
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UNAX Astra 610S (Score:2)
Speed is what you'd expect from SCSI (nice and fast, esp. compared to parallel port models.) The scan quality is as good as other (windows-based) scanners I've seen.
Only bad thing I have to say about it is that dark photographs come out slightly murky; if you're scanning in bright stuff there's no problem. I don't know if this is a by-product of the scanner itself, the sane drivers, or my inexperience.
Don't bother with the cheapo SCSI card that comes with it: I couldn't even get it to work from windows 95. I bought an adaptec; Red Hat automagically detected and configured it.
Can't beat it on price; I got it for around $80.
Epson GT-7000 (Score:2)