On 12/10/17 17:31, ToddAndMargo wrote: > Dear List, > > Anyone have a favorite flat bed scanner that is SL friendly?
I've only had MFPs the last 10 years or so, with printer and scanner integrated. These are my general experiences on a few brands - Canon Horrendous Linux support, network scanning basically impossible. USB scanning may work reasonably okay. - Brother Functional Linux drivers (also on RHEL), cumbersome setup but once done even network scanning works reasonably well. - HP One of the best driver packages I've used. Newest hardware can be tricky and may require building hplip package manually. But the web page is quite good at listing which driver version is required. Network scanning works very well, even AFP with duplex scanning. And for USB scanning, this works also very well. Downside: requires a binary plug-in to be installed post driver install. This is basically a required closed source/proprietary firmware to enable scanning. This can be installed both via the hplip command line and GUI tools. I'd recommend a HP MFP device any time. If you can find an older model on sale, you'll get big bang for the bucks with a big chance it will work out of the box once the hplip packages are installed. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth
