From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Apr 8 06:47:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA04126 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 06:47:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uk1.imdb.com (UK1.IMDb.COM [192.68.174.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id GAA04121 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 06:47:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robh@imdb.com) Received: from robh.imdb.com [194.222.68.23] by uk1.imdb.com with esmtp (Exim 1.62 #1) id 0yMv8I-0001xr-00; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 14:43:19 +0100 Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 14:34:10 +0100 (BST) From: Rob Hartill X-Sender: robh@localhost To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Freebsd + scanner recommendations In-Reply-To: <199804081212.IAA01663@gatekeeper.itribe.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Jamie Bowden wrote: > On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Steve Hearn wrote: > > > > > Having just spent several frustrating hours scanning on a Win95 box.... > > > > I would really like to put a scanner (just basically A4 color style) on one > > of my > > freebsd boxes. > > > > Can anyone point me to a reliable hardware/software configuration for > > freebsd. Preferably SCSI. > > > > I think I saw in a recent post that xv supports HP scanners? > > > > Thanks for any help. > > There is a company out there that sells a product called xvscan for $50. > It comes as a fully registered copy of xv, with HP scanner support. There > is also hpscan in the ports. Having used xvscan, I can tell you it's a > nice product, and having registered xv is a nice side bonus. I have no > experience with hpscan. Anyone know if it'll scan from a HP officejet 635 ? I'd prefer scanning from FreeBSD than have to waste money on Windoze 95 just to be able to scan. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message