On Thursday 03 February 2005 14:15, R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar wrote: > Dear Folks, > > I am looking at suitable USB scanners for operqtion under Linux and two > that are relatively inexpensive (circa AUD 100.00) are: > > Canon LiDE 20 which is completely supported, and Umax Astra 3600 for > which there is no explicit statement of SANE support. > > There is an interesting comparison of depth of focus and scan quality > for these two scanners at: > > http://www.ausmedia.com.au/canon.htm > > and that made me want to investigate the Umax Astra 3600 some more. > > I know from > > http://www.buzzard.org.uk/jonathan/scanners-usb.html > > that the Umax Astra 3400 is supported. > > Hence this question: Is the Umax Astra 3600 also supported under SANE? > > TIA. > > Chandra > 03 Feb 05
Hi Chandra, first of all, I don't think it's necessary to "bother" all the lists around ;) Regarding scanner, it's normally enough to ask sane-devel... In general, you should check www.sane-project.org for supported devices. AFAIK Jonathans' site is somewhat outdated. The UMAX 3600 is marked as not supported, also in general, the scanner manufacturers use to keep the naming, but quite often change the hardware. So even if the scanner is named somehow the same as a supported device (LiDE30 <-> LiDE35) it's not supported. One note on the advertisment of http://www.ausmedia.com.au/canon.htm: The LiDE 20 is a USB1.1 device, which supports full-speed mode, which is about 12Mib/s and does not support the USB2.0 high-speed mode. It works on a USB2.0 bus, but it's in fact a USB1.1 device. Ciao, Gerhard ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl _______________________________________________ Linux-usb-users@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
