[Leaplist] standalone scanners

[Richard F. Ostrow Jr.]

If location is an issue, you may also want to consider an 802.11 scanner.
I have an all-in-one HP beast (that I absolutely refuse to install windows
drivers for - ruined more than one windows installation with those
abominations, even after "uninstalling" them). Mine's an "HP Photosmart
C7280". I have it in the dining room, pretty much away from all the other
machines - only thing hooked up to it is the power cord. Works well with
linux and freebsd (in fact, it's the only printer I've managed to get
working under freebsd). You can also do your scanning over a web interface
if you prefer, so you can get the OS out of the picture entirely. Has a
document feeder, but I don't think it supports double-sided scanning.

One limitation: If you attempt to scan in greyscale via xsane, you will
put the scanner into a error condition that will not get cleared until you
pull the power plug and reboot the thing.

I paid $120 for it a couple years ago (it was 66% off at the time, I
believe the retail price was $400+... but that was a couple years ago). I
wouldn't recommend it as a printer... it sucks down ink like nobody's
business, and refills are $50 a pop. In an emergency, I actually had to
refill the ink three times in one week. Definately not happy...
On Wed, December 2, 2009 6:45 pm, Jason Boxman wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 December 2009 01:02:55 pm Kevin Korb wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Interesting.  The server is in a poor physical place logistically to
> likely
> have a scanner attached to it.  I might have to attempt to rectify that.
> We'd
> only use it rarely anyway.  I'd have to script up something to put the
> scans
> on a file server, though.  Actually, no one would know how to even start
> the
> scanning process.
>
> Probably need one I can hang off a Windows box somehow.  Google Picasa
> seems to
> support taking to scanners somehow.
>
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