Which USB Scanners work?

[gene heskett]

On Tuesday, September 28, 2010 12:33:51 pm Clay Weber did opine:

> On Tuesday, September 28, 2010 11:31:31 am FarSight Data Systems wrote:
> > I'm looking to replace my old HP ScanJet 6300c scanner.  It's giving
> > me problems.
> > 
> > So, I've tried the Canon CanoScan 8800F and it doesn't work (and I've
> > tried) with Linux and Canon doesn't support Linux  (currently using
> > Linux Mint 7 on desktop and lapton and Kubuntu 10.04 on netbook)
> > might be upgrading to Kubuntu 10.04 all around.
> > 
> > So, what scanners work with the above distros?  My parameters:
> > 
> > Company should support Linux (an exception can be made for a definite
> > working flatbed scanner that's inexpensive)
> > 
> > Price at or under $150
> > 
> > USB 2.0
> > 
> > Can scan at minimum of 600 DPI (higher would be better)
> > 
> > Can anyone help me with choosing a scanner with the above parameters?
> > 
> > Mark
> 
> I suggest looking at
> http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html
> and
> http://www.sane-project.org/cgi-bin/driver.pl
> I am not sure how up-to-date these are, but the info is accurate. It can
> take time for newer scanner models to get support, sometimes it even
> takes a while for less new models. But searching by model/make should
> be good, but the listings may be valid for only the very latest sane
> version, I don't quickly see a way to easily determine that.
> 
> Your Canon scanner is supposed to be supported in the currrent sane
> version, so my guess is the version of sane in Lucid is not quite new
> enough to have this recently-added device support. (it is one version
> back from sane's current version)
> 
> There is a ppa with the newest sane for Lucid:
> https://edge.launchpad.net/~robert-ancell/+archive/sane-backends
> Might be worth checking out before buying a new one.
> 
> Very few scanners advertise linux support up front, unfortunately. And
> even in those companies that do have great Linux support (iirc Epson
> and HP), not all their models do depending on the scanner chipsets
> used.
> 
> I currently have a cheap Canon LiDE 25 flatbed that works fine, though I
> don't believe it is made anymore. It uses the 'plustek' backend. I
> definitely goes higher than 600 dpi, tho I am sure most do nowdays.
> 
> 
> Clay

I have a now several years old Epson Perfection 1250u, works flawlessly with 
xsane.

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