Mitch Wiedemann wrote:
I'm in the market for a new USB scanner. Of course I'd like it to be easy to set up and to work flawlessly with FC1, Gimp, Sane, etc. Can anyone give me a recommendation about current models on the market?i bought this baby -
Thanks in advance.
(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000J3FV/104-4316108-0041541?v=glance)
3 years ago for $99 CAN - and i over the years have tested it in each new version of whatever flavour distro i had installed at the time. I never had any luck getting a good quality scan (or so i thought ...)
this week i plugged it in again with fedora and fired up xsane - ran a scan at 300dpi and got the same crappy quality image that i had always got. Then a flash came to me - instead of just looking at the 'preview' that xsane was showing me - i thought i would fire up gimp and check it out. Lo and behold - the quality was incredible - it was perfectly scanned and the resolution was great!!
My problem was that the 'preview' in xsane was displaying my image 'compressed' so that i could see it all at the same time on my screen. This caused the quality to look really crappy and thus my assumption that my scanner was not supported.
Anyhoo - after all that - i heartily recommend this cheapo scanner for great quality scans that works out-of-the-box with fedora.
if you want a sample of what it can do - email me directly and i will attach some demo scans for you to check out the quality ...
pantz
-- Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes ... That way when you do criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes!
