The real problem being that scanners, like non-postscript printers,
are immense semi-proprietary bags of ass, So like an inkjet printer,
it's probably an engine written by monkeys and gpl'ed userland driver
written from nonexistent docs or reverse engineered. Having to get
one for my wife and kid reminds me of the aggravation I went through
with inkjet printers before simply throwing enough money at the
problem to get a printer that spoke postscript and lpr. Having to do
it again with scanners with no option to buy a decent device makes me
think fondly of the mere small amount of pain that was my vasectomy...
If I get something that works I'll let the list know.
-Bob
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Bob Beck wrote:
>
> > Interesting, because I'm seeking the same. Based on sane's site and
> >what was at the local staples, I bought a Canon Lide 25 - however the
> >sane support on openbsd didn't work, better yet, if I boot to windows
> >to see if the thing is boned or not, trying to install the windows
> >driver crashes (I get the demoplay.exe has crashed - do you wanna tell
> >microsoft?).
> >
> > Needless to say I don't need the aggravation - the canon is going
> >back to the store and based on the reccomendations here I'll look for an
> >epson.
>
> Hi all,
>
> I got Canon Canoscan N650U flatbed scanner that needs only USB cord to
> operate. It works fine although there are
> some quirks. SANE's site lists the driver as "complete",
> however at least on OpenBSD it sometimes tries to access
> areas beoynd its limitations. There are some smaller issues
> too but I don't want to go into that.
>
> All in all, it's OK considering I paid only ~15 EUR for it (second
> hand, I don't think those have been in the stores for some time).
>
> --
> Antti Harri
>
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