Recommendation for a scanner?

[Volker Wysk]

Am Samstag, den 12.12.2020, 09:04 -0500 schrieb 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. 

The SANE devices list has four Brother MFC's, all listed as unsupported.

> 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.

So it Just Works with a proprietary driver. I'm not sure if I want that...

> 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.

Thanks for the hint. But I think I don't need a big monster ink jet. :-) But
I may have to think that over.


Cheers,
V.W.
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