UPDATE/CHANGE to: which of THESE scanners/printers will surely work on Ubuntu 22.04?

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mfioretti at nexaima.net wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 15, 2022 18:07:39 PM +0000, Marco Fioretti wrote:
> > 
> > To make a long story short (*), I need to buy asap one of the
> > all-in-one printer/scanner listed in THIS page of this store (it's
> > italian, but all you need to read there is the
> > model names, really):
> > 
> > https://www.mediaworld.it/it/search.html?sort=currentprice%2Basc&query=
> > stampanti-multifunzione
> > ...  
> 
> Greetings again.
> 
> After sleeping over this and walking around the closest mall, I
> realized that buying a scanner-only Canon Canoscan LIDE 400 at the
> corner store, and some printer-only thing later on may be a better
> solution for my most urgent problems: very likely, I will have to
> scand 1000+ photographs but print very little in the next 4/6 weeks,
> after that it should be the opposite, i.e. little printing, but very
> little scanning.
> 
> The doubts I have about this solution are:
> 
> - USB-powered??? This worries me. I was giving for granted I would
>   connect this via a small USB hub to an Intel NUC, but it won't work,
>   will it? And if I attached this to the only USB port still available
>   on the NUC, would it drain too much power from a device like that?

Use a powered USB hub. Amazon Basics is one example. 

> - the SANE website says that scanner is fully supported via the "pixma
> 0.28.6 driver", but I do not understand, or recognize, whether the
> sane package coming with Ubuntu 22.04 does contain that specific
> driver or not, and/or if I would need other packages (Vuescan???):

https://www.canon-europe.com/support/consumer_products/products/scanners/lide_series/canoscan-lide-400.html?type=drivers&language=en&os=linux%20(64-bit)

>      https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/sane
> 
> any help to understand if that scanner will be usable without problems
> on my NUC/Ubuntu 22.04 combination is VERY welcome! Ditto for any
> mention of problems with that scanner that I may have overlooked.
> 
> TIA,
> Marco
> 
> 
> 
> 
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