Recommendation for a scanner?

[Robert Heller]

At Sat, 12 Dec 2020 16:48:00 +0000 dave at thefletchers.net, "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On Sat, 2020-12-12 at 13:49 +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.
> > 
> > I've gone through a rather long list of devices, which are offered by
> > a
> > local computer shop (also is an online shop), but most aren't
> > mentioned in
> > SANE's devices list at all. One is mentioned, but it doesn't support
> > duplex
> > operation.
> 
> Try taking a look at brother.co.uk There's a selection of scanners, a
> lot of mentions of SANE. My GF bought a DCP-L3550CDW laser
> printer/scanner a couple of weeks ago, which I plugged into the spare
> port on her router and the installer script from the Brother web site
> appears to have worked beautifully.

The only gotchas I had with Brother's MFC drivers is that they are compiled 
for 32-bit, so you need to be sure you install libc.i386 in order for them to 
acually work.  At least that was the case for the partitular MFC we have at 
the library.

> 
> 

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