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Date:      Thu, 19 Aug 2004 15:52:54 +0200
From:      Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD scanners
Message-ID:  <20040819135254.GI20058@abigail.blackend.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040819003107.GX88156@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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>

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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

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