Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 10:59:54 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD scanners Message-ID: <20040822012954.GN92256@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <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> <20040819135254.GI20058@abigail.blackend.org>
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--+svXpSx+RSEd8UhP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday, 19 August 2004 at 15:52:54 +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 10:01:07AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> >> 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. I think that the real issue is the fact that people tend to consider the hardware and software as integral. The Canon hardware is terrible. The Canon GUI is, well, a GUI. It's also broken. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --+svXpSx+RSEd8UhP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBJ/cSIubykFB6QiMRAuafAJ0fsRGBL9pMyue7eNDAa3VLtcweiwCgoKfV nAfogAo1BBohhz489FzfQrc= =oGbS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+svXpSx+RSEd8UhP--
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