Recommendation for a scanner?

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 12 December 2020 08:28:04 Chris Green wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 01:49:21PM +0100, Volker Wysk wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'm about to buy a new scanner, but the inquiry is hard work.
> >
> > It shall be a flat-bed scanner with an additional ADF. So it's both,
> > a flab- bed and a document scanner. (Such are available!) It
> > must/shall be able to do duplex, and it must support colors. In
> > addition, it should have a USB connection, and (most of all) it
> > needs to be supported by Linux. It should cost less than 400 €. And
> > it may be second-hand.
>
> My OKI all-in-one printer does all that as well as being a colour
> laser printer.  It cost around £160 I think so is well within your
> budget.
>
> The model is MC342N.
>
> Linux support is excellent, it comes with a pop-up utility that
> installs itself in the task bar on my xubuntu system, but you can just
> run it as well if you want.

And if your need is for a larger format but 99.9% of your use is letter 
or A4 stuff, I'll recommend the Brother MFC's. I have an MFC-J69020-DW, 
now several years old. And its a big monster ink jet. Running the 
drivers downloadable from brother's support site, the integration to 
cups and xsane for all functions is best described as Just Works.

It scans up to tabloid thru the ADF. Can do duplex except for tabloid. 
but printing tabloid needs a rear feed which is hard to align properly.  
But I do use that occasionally for rockhopper output, which is a logic 
tracer intended to show the signal flow thru the .hal file(s) of a 
LinuxCNC driven metal carving machine. 2 paper trays, I keep one full of 
photo paper, the other full of decent quality copy paper. It has an ipv4 
interface and usb, but the ipv4 is noticeably slower, so I just "share" 
it, and can drive it from any of this or the other 4 machines on my home 
network.  Part of the ipv4 slow is the tcp driver, it sends the wrong 
checksum the first 6 times it sends a wakeup to the printer, but sends 
the correct crc the 7th time.

> Chris Green

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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