[Leaplist] standalone scanners

[Derek Konigsberg]

I used to use an old brand-X hand-me-down flatbed with a DB25 SCSI 
connector.  But it had its share of issues, like stalling 3/4 of the way 
through a scan.

These days (for many years now), I use a hand-me-down HP ScanJet flatbed, 
which is old enough to have both HD50 SCSI and USB, and it works perfectly 
with SANE on both interfaces.  Its dpi capability is so insanely high that 
I've used it to create images of shorted pins on surface-mount chips on 
circuit boards.  For all my paper-like scanning needs, its perfect and I 
have no reason to ever get anything else.

Of course I've gotten other scanners since, but they're all dedicated 
high-quality/dpi film scanners made by Nikon.

-Derek

On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Kevin Korb wrote:

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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.
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> 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.
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> 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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