[Leaplist] standalone scanners

[Kevin Korb]

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I would look on eBay and find the cheapest one that is supported by SANE.
The one I have is so old it is SCSI and the last supported OS was Win95
(it actually didn't work in Win98) but it works just fine with xsane under
Linux.  I have never seen a reason to upgrade and I think I paid $50 for
it back in 95-96.

Don't pay much attention to DPI.  Unless you are doing something special
you will probably never go above 150 DPI.  An 8.5x11" scan at 150 DPI comes
out to 1650x1275 or about 6MB.  If you do go above 150 DPI (for maybe
scanning a photo) you will probably only go to 300 DPI.

On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 12:54:55 -0500
Jason Boxman <jasonb at edseek.com> wrote:
> Anyone have a favorite standalone document scanner?  Looking into
> purchasing one for the occasional scan when faxing isn't possible or
> appropriate.
> 
> Might buy an all in one someday, but the current, ancient laserjet
> printer is presently sufficient.  Not ready to open that can of worms
> yet.  (Especially for a color laser multi-function.)
> 
> Thanks.
> 


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