On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 17:53 -0500, Fred A. Miller wrote: > Teruel de Campo MD wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 20:06 +0000, John Layt wrote: > >> On Thursday 22 November 2007, Lenz Grimmer wrote: > >>> Does anybody have a recommendation for a flatbed scanner, connected via > >>> USB2 that works flawlessly with Linux (openSUSE 10.3 in particular) and > >>> is still on sale (especially in Europe/Germany)? > >> Almost anything from HP will be supported, except their very cheapest > >> models > >> which cut a few corners. They're the gold standard for manufacturer based > >> printer & scanner support under linux. > >> > >> Epson reportedly also has fairly good support. > >> > >> John. > > > > John, > > > > This is not my experience few month ago. Things might have changed. When > > I looked into HP scanners you could run most of the all in one devices > > (fax, printer, scanner) but there was not support for any of the high > > end single purpose scanner. That's why I end up getting the Epson 4990 > > photo. > > > > http://hp-linux.cern.ch/support/devscanner.php3 > > Terry, I have the 4490 Photo which is an EXCELLENT scanner, but Iscan > limits me to only a max. of 2400DPI, when the printer is capable of > 4800x9600. Are you limited in the 4990 Photo as well, and will it scan > negatives properly with conversion? >
Fred, 1. Yes with vuescan I can go to 4800 and that should be the same with yours. Ain't fast :) Vuescan is also very nice to scan slides and negatives and support the use of the slide trays. It is a well polished product. I bough the license. 2. I choose the 4990 because I can run sane without proprietary drivers under opensuse 10.3 64b. Initially using suse 10.2 I tried the proprietary drivers and I think I have to install also some 32b libraries and work well. I did not see any advantages but I did not test high resolutions because I do not use them. 3. The sane backend has bug that prevents you from going to high resolution. Although I can see in both xsane and kooka resolutions up to 3200 it does not work. I can get 1400 or a little more and then complains that "can not start scanner out of memory" which of course is not true (I have 2GB and plenty of space) I saw this thread: https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=303493&group_id=30186&atid=410366 So if you can go to 2400 using the epson drivers you are doing better than me using sane. 4. I also installed the win software that came with the scanner under VMware and works very well although I do not use it since I discover vuescan. My interest were scan slides and many at the time. Regards, -=terry=- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
