On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 16:02 -0700, Grant Robinson wrote:
> Maybe I'm missing something here, but how is this cool?  Wouldn't you 
> have to call someone at home a couple of miles away to have them put 
> new pages in the scanner?  Either that or run home, put a new page in, 
> run back to work, and then scan the next page.  I mean, I guess it 
> saves you the hassle of copying the file from one machine to another, 
> but it just seems like this has limited usefulness besides the "gee 
> whiz" factor.  :)

Yes you are missing something here.  Having a sane-server is incredibly
useful because it means that any computer on my home network (laptop, 2
workstations) can all access the scanner as if it was local.  If I need
to scans something to my laptop I just go put stick it on the bed and
click scan on the laptop. No wires or anything required.

> 
> Course, if you are going the headless route, and your computer is right 
> next to the headless computer and scanner, then it might be slightly 
> more useful.

Yes this was the point.

Michael


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