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Date:      Mon, 02 Sep 1996 00:31:48 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: Anyone done any SCSI scanner support work? 
Message-ID:  <3140.841649508@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Sep 1996 09:08:32 %2B0200." <199609020708.JAA22302@uriah.heep.sax.de> 

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> I personally prefer HPscan, followed Nate's opinion here. ;)  Of
> course, as the name suggests, it's for HP ScanJets only.  However,
> it's in the ports and ready to run.  Thus my employer prefered to buy
> a ScanJet, and thus took me any reason to hack Mustek support for
> anything. :-)

ScanJet = $995 at Fry's.
Mustek = $389 at Costco.

I think that's at least one compelling reason to try and make it work,
for those of us in the market for a new scanner. :-)

Let me put it another way - I think that if someone out there decided
to make a really serious committment to trying to drive one of these
little scanners, with the additional understanding that the driver be
done in a reasonably elegant fashion and with some usermode support
(at the very minimum, something to grab images in an established
format like ppm or tiff would do), I think it would then be reasonable
to assume that a new scanner of these dimensions might arrive in the
post to expedite the process.  On indefinate long-term loan, of
course. :-)

						Jordan



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