Hi, Andreas Piening wrote:
> I'm realy impressed by the quick and helpful answers, thank you very > much! > > I took a closer look at the Epson GT-30000 and the Avision @V5100. The > Problem I have with the Avision: It has many features that I don't need > like the standalone connection to a printer for copying, faxing etc. I > can't use this features because I need cost-control, for example every > page printed / copied or scanned must be send to a SAP backend and the > print-quota of a user must be watched etc. Printing over IEEE 1284 does > not sound like a professional solution where every second waiting for > the paper to come out is money. > I need a professional color- scanner/printer duo, which is fast in every > operation and good in quality, too. The whole system will be controlable > via a touchscreen-display-interface and the System should: Copy, Scan, > Print, Scan to PDF/jpg, Burn to CD/DVD, send via eMail, save at webspace > (FTP) and maybe more. All costs must costs must be cleared by the user. Well if you need a duo (aka. combo scan/print) device I think you'll not find one from Avision - sorry ... :-( > But the price of the Avision @V5100 is not higher than the GT-30000, so > it is possible to hide the user-interface integrated in the Scanner and > use it as a "scanner-only" peripheral. If the sane support is better (I > think about the duplex unit) maybe this is a way. I think the parallel output is not accessible from the host computer ... :-( > The Other thing is: Which interface to choose? I need to engineer the > fastest solution possible, so I think SCSI is the fastest, am I right? > Is the sane-backend so "abstract" that it can handle the scanner at > USB/SCSI/FireWire or no matter what, or do I need special support for > the interface? USB 2.0 and Firewire are quite fast, too. Firewire has up to 400 or 800 MBit/s and USB 2.0 480MBit or so ... Yours, -- René Rebe - Rubensstr. 64 - 12157 Berlin (Europe / Germany) http://www.exactcode.de | http://www.exactcode.de/t2 +49 (0)30 255 897 45