On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 12:52:33AM -0600, Austad, Jay wrote: > Epson scanners seem to be the best supported. I bought an Epson Perfection > 1240U awhile back, and I love it. It takes about 10 seconds to scan a full > sheet of paper in full color. Other scanners that I've tried that with take > well over a minute (cough, canon, cough). Absolutely zero problems making > it work on my new system too. I just compiled Sane and Xsane, edited the > epson config file under the sane directory to point to /dev/usb/scanner0, > and loaded the scanner module with: [snip] > > The Epson has sweet quality also, much better than Canon or HP of comparable > resolution/price. Even on windows, the Epson really kicks the crap out of > all other scanners I've tried (and we have a ton floating around at work). > > Jay > I have an excellent scanner I bought in '96-97, it's a Mustek MFS 12000 SP, it supports parallel or SCSI connections, ledger size scanning, i don't recall the resolutions that it supports but they're still higher than all of the tinker toy scanners being sold today (of course, it cost >$300 when i bought it, and that was with a large-ish discount). If you're interested in doing real work quickly, get a quality scanner (preferably SCSI) if you want to play around and scan a few pictures here and there, go for the low-end toys.. [trim your posts!] -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://techmonkeys.org/~poptix GPG public key 0x01938203