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From: Vim Visual <vim.unix@...>
To: <misc@...>
Subject: scanner??
Date: Monday, September 10, 2007 - 6:08 am

Hi,


Yet almost an amateur, I have totally moved to OpenBSD, I have

preordered my CDs, I bought them in the last release, tshirt/s too and

I am a missionary of the Unique Truth and try to convert all salvages

around me to it.


Now, I am looking forward to buying a scanner. I don't want a scanner,

printer, washing machine and vacuum cleaner, I just want a scanner

that scans documents and pictures. That's it.


... and I wonder whether any of you has a recommendation for me.


Do you?


Thanks a lot,


Pau Amaro Seoane
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From: Aaron Poffenberger <akp@...>
To: <vim.unix@...>, openbsd <misc@...>
Subject: Re: scanner??
Date: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 - 4:33 pm

Hi Vim,

I know you're not looking for a washing machine and vacuum cleaner, but

perhaps you should look at the Brother and HP MFC models.  The HP 7650

has an auto-document feeder (ADF) which was a must have for me.  Because

of the ADF it can scan both sides with the built in duplexer.  (It can

also print duplex.)


The nice part about the scanner is it can be configured (via web

interface) to scan to an SMB file share.  I'm running Samba on OpenBSD

4.1 and have it scan straight to the share and then pick-up my scans

from the folder.  The only trouble I've had is occasionally the scanner

will complain about not being able to find the share.  It will usually

find it once I push "OK" and restart the scan.


I haven't tried SANE with it nor have I tried printing from OpenBSD.  We

print typically from OS X.  However, HP have been really working with

the community to release all the code necessary to print with CUPS (and

perhaps with lpn).  It should just work(tm).


I used to have a Brother 38xx that could scan straight to a card.  That

was my solution back then.


Good luck finding what you want.


--Aaron
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From: Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@...>
To: <vim.unix@...>
Cc: <misc@...>
Subject: Re: scanner??
Date: Monday, September 10, 2007 - 6:14 am

Epson are usually very well supported.

See: http://www.sane-project.org/cgi-bin/driver.pl


--

Antoine
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From: Denny White <dennyboy@...>
To: <vim.unix@...>
Cc: <misc@...>
Subject: Re: scanner??
Date: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 - 2:02 am

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I can vouch for the Epsons. I picked up an old Epson Perfection 1200U

off eBay & it works great with both xsane & the sane front & backends

on my old PIII 800 home-built running OpenBSD 4.0, and on my Dell

Dimension 2400 running 4.1, thanks to Antoine's work on the ports.

Sorry Antoine, shameless plug for you. ;)


Denny White


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From: Vim Visual <vim.unix@...>
To: <misc@...>
Subject: Re: scanner??
Date: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 - 3:01 am

Hi,


thanks for the answers. I am looking now for a _fast_ epson.


The purpose is to be able to scan pictures with a good resolution but,

more importantly, to scan *hundreds* of pages...


I am a bit lost in ebay, but I keep on searching. Do you have any

recommendation?


I have noticed that may of them have a note added similar to this one:


"overseas version of the GT-X750 requires DFSG non-free iscan-plugin-gt-x750"


What does it mean? Why "overseas"?? Will it work?


Pau
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From: Douglas A. Tutty <dtutty@...>
To: <misc@...>
Subject: Re: scanner??
Date: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 - 8:42 am

What about a nice digital camera setup with tripod, indirect lighting,

and copy-plate.  The copy-plate is a little box with foam in the bottom

and a glass top that presses the origional flat; usefull for curled

origionals, useless for books :).


Cameras, of course, take the image very quickly and a high MP camera

should give the resolution you need.


Doug.
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From: Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@...>
To: <vim.unix@...>, Vim Visual <vim.unix@...>
Cc: <misc@...>
Subject: Re: scanner??
Date: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 - 3:53 am

Outside of the USA? I don't know really...

You should really ask on the SANE lists for a fast scanner that would work

out-of-the box (i.e. without blobs or anything).


Cheers.


--

Antoine
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From: Vim Visual <vim.unix@...>
To: <misc@...>
Subject: Re: scanner??
Date: Monday, September 10, 2007 - 6:10 am

I forgot to mention... ahem... I want to use it with OpenBSD, of course...


(just in case of)


Pau
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From: Bob Beck <beck@...>
To: <vim.unix@...>
Cc: <misc@...>
Subject: Re: scanner??
Date: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 - 10:52 am

Interesting, because I'm seeking the same. Based on sane's site and

what was at the local staples, I bought a Canon Lide 25 - however the

sane support on openbsd didn't work, better yet, if I boot to windows

to see if the thing is boned or not, trying to install the windows

driver crashes (I get the demoplay.exe has crashed - do you wanna tell

microsoft?). 


	Needless to say I don't need the aggravation  - the canon is going

back to the store and based on the reccomendations here I'll look for an

epson.


	-Bob


--

#!/usr/bin/perl

if ((not 0 && not 1) !=  (! 0 && ! 1)) {

   print "Larry and Tom must smoke some really primo stuff...\n";

}
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From: Pete Vickers <pete@...>
To: Bob Beck <beck@...>
Cc: <misc@...>
Subject: Re: scanner??
Date: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 - 6:43 pm

Just to chime in my experiences, I have an old HP scanner/copier

connected via a parallel cable to a HP jetdirect box.


 From my openbsd host I simply run the following to retrieve an image

of current page on the scanner glass.


wget -S -v -t 1 -O scan.pdf "http://jetdirect:9280/scan/scan.pdf?

scan_id=1&image_format=3&paper_size=2&image_type=1&dpi=150&gamma=1"


I regard this as the scanning equivalent of Bob's 'get a PS printer'

to avoid the complexities of drivers...


/Pete
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From: Antti Harri <iku@...>
To: Bob Beck <beck@...>
Cc: <misc@...>
Subject: Re: scanner??
Date: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 - 12:59 pm

Hi all,


I got Canon Canoscan N650U flatbed scanner that needs only USB cord to

operate. It works fine although there are

some quirks. SANE's site lists the driver as "complete",

however at least on OpenBSD it sometimes tries to access

areas beoynd its limitations. There are some smaller issues

too but I don't want to go into that.


All in all, it's OK considering I paid only ~15 EUR for it (second

hand, I don't think those have been in the stores for some time).


--

Antti Harri
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From: Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@...>
To: Antti Harri <iku@...>
Cc: Bob Beck <beck@...>, <misc@...>
Subject: Re: scanner??
Date: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 - 2:10 pm

This is a very current problem with SANE. Try with a Linux live CD to

see if you get the same issues, I don't think this is OpenBSD related at

all.


--

Antoine
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From: Antti Harri <iku@...>
To: Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@...>
Cc: <misc@...>
Subject: Re: scanner??
Date: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 - 3:46 pm

Now that I tried to get it malfunction I couldn't!

Worked just fine on OpenBSD. Even the LampOff setting

worked (it didn't before)! Great :-)


PS. Using the uscanner driver. No need to hassle with

UKC with it :-)


--

Antti Harri
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From: Bob Beck <beck@...>
To: Antti Harri <iku@...>
Cc: Bob Beck <beck@...>, <misc@...>
Subject: Re: scanner??
Date: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 - 1:08 pm

The real problem being that scanners, like non-postscript printers,

are immense semi-proprietary bags of ass, So like an inkjet printer,

it's probably an engine written by monkeys and gpl'ed userland driver

written from nonexistent docs or reverse engineered.  Having to get

one for my wife and kid reminds me of the aggravation I went through

with inkjet printers before simply throwing enough money at the

problem to get a printer that spoke postscript and lpr. Having to do

it again with scanners with no option to buy a decent device makes me

think fondly of the mere small amount of pain that was my vasectomy...

If I get something that works I'll let the list know. 


--

#!/usr/bin/perl

if ((not 0 && not 1) !=  (! 0 && ! 1)) {

   print "Larry and Tom must smoke some really primo stuff...\n";

}
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From: Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@...>
To: Bob Beck <beck@...>
Cc: Antti Harri <iku@...>, <misc@...>
Subject: Re: scanner??
Date: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 - 2:09 pm

My Epson Perfection 1650 worked abolutely perfect under OpenBSD for

years... and I mean perfect! Very high resolution, all my workstations

could benefit from it across the network using saned (and that

includes Windows)...

It's not very fast, but I don't need to scan books so...


--

Antoine
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From: Mattieu Baptiste <mattieu.b@...>
To: <vim.unix@...>, <misc@...>
Subject: Re: scanner??
Date: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 - 11:19 am

My Canon Lide 30 works ok if I disable uscanner(4). The Lide 25 seems

to use the same SANE driver than my scaner (plustek). Maybe disabling


--

Mattieu Baptiste

"/earth is 102% full ... please delete anyone you can."
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From: Vim Visual <vim.unix@...>
To: <misc@...>
Subject: Re: scanner??
Date: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 - 11:00 am

Hi Bob,


I don't have windows, so that I need a 100% obsd compatible scanner.

Let me know about your decision, please.


Cheers,


Pau
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