From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 19 13:52:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFECC16A4CE; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 13:52:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (blackend.org [212.11.35.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFBDA43D5A; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 13:52:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i7JDqsce025921; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 15:52:54 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@abigail.blackend.org) Received: (from marc@localhost) by abigail.blackend.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i7JDqsmk025920; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 15:52:54 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc) Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 15:52:54 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" Message-ID: <20040819135254.GI20058@abigail.blackend.org> References: <411E9639.2070609@spintech.ro> <8cb27cbf0408152126257ec1bc@mail.gmail.com> <4121E53D.7000900@spintech.ro> <20040817115042.GB38060@abigail.blackend.org> <4121FAE5.70605@spintech.ro> <20040817132341.GC38060@abigail.blackend.org> <20040819003107.GX88156@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="hQiwHBbRI9kgIhsi" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040819003107.GX88156@wantadilla.lemis.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Useless-Header: blackend.org X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.10-PRERELEASE cc: Anton Alin-Adrian cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD scanners X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 13:52:57 -0000 --hQiwHBbRI9kgIhsi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 10:01:07AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >=20 > Interesting. I've just had a very bad experience with Canon's > scanners. See > http://wwww.lemis.com/grog/product-reviews/Canon-breakage.html for the > whole sad story. > Unfortunately, I'm not surprised. Since USB is the scanners "standard" interface, I noted more and more "bad" scanners: bad/weak GUI (for example the GUI coming with some EPSON Perfection scanners is the worst I ever used), bad performance, cheap/buggy hardware. The Canon LIDE 30 is not the best scanner available around, but it's just a "decent" scanner for 69 Euros... and is supported by SANE. I also own an old Agfa SnapScan 600 SCSI, and it's another world. BTW, as always, your pages are really interesting. Marc --hQiwHBbRI9kgIhsi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBJLC081T1MWxkgcoRAt3XAJwIyBTQZ3agN6r/a5HtGVMC25PGjwCeJVRD bmWqnJHiENOkvzHze4dCX74= =82g+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --hQiwHBbRI9kgIhsi--