Recommendation for a scanner?

[Joel Rees]

On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 1:08 AM Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:
>
> 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.

My Brother multi-function printer/scanner works fine in Ubuntu without
the Brother drivers. It's a DCP, not a MFC.

When I was running Debian before the systemd business, I used the
proprietary ririvers. I don't nneed them ay more.

> > 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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