From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Feb 13 11:31:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from Samizdat.uucom.com (samizdat.uucom.com [198.202.217.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2DF737B491 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 11:31:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from cshenton@localhost) by Samizdat.uucom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA24705; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 14:31:10 -0500 (EST) To: Mike Nowlin Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: scanner suggestions? References: <20010213020939.A32714@jason.argos.org> From: Chris Shenton Date: 13 Feb 2001 14:31:10 -0500 In-Reply-To: Mike Nowlin's message of "Tue, 13 Feb 2001 02:09:39 -0500" Message-ID: Lines: 34 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 02:09:39 -0500, Mike Nowlin said: Mike> I'm looking for a page scanner that meets the following: 1) Mike> Decent resolution. (at least 600x600) 2) Supported by FBSD / Mike> SANE 3) USB or SCSI 4) Able to hook >1 up to the computer & run Mike> several at the same time 5) Auto document feeder 6) Able to Mike> handle 800-1000 pages/day, divided by # of scanners I'm not much of a scanner user, but had some cash burning a hole in my pocket recently. I searched places like streetprices.com for scanner usb scsi cuz I wanted something that would work now (presumably scsi) and future (usb, if it's stable). Turned up an HP and an Epson model or two. I think both are available with ADF. The Epson 1640SU I got seems nice and works over USB (recent commits to USB config files for the model ID) tho I've hung/crashed my 4.2-STABLE box a couple times trying to do real high resolution; I suspect it's a USB immaturity thing. Seems to work fine over USB over more typical resolutions and bit-depths. Haven't tried the SCSI yet. Again, I don't have much to compare with, but "works for me" (tm). What swayed me to go Epson instead of HP: * various reviews comparing image quality for comparable models * price for comparable features * SANE comments indicating Epson has been *very* forthcoming in releasing doc to SANE developers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message