Re: Linux Magazine Scanner story

From: Dirk Jakobsmeier (dirk.jakobsmeier@debitel.net)
Date: Thu Mar 16 2000 - 09:07:20 PST

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    Am Mit, 15 Mär 2000 schrieben Sie:
    > Hey,
    >
    > I'm editing a story about Scanners from Linux Magazine, and I'm trying
    > to put a list of scanners that are known to work with Linux. I know
    > about the http://panda.mostang.com/sane/sane-backends.html page, but I'm
    > trying to get information based on personal experience about what
    > scanners really are the best to use with Linux.
    >
    > If anybody has a recommendation for me, I'd welcome your comments (feel
    > free to tell me why the scanner is good, too).
    >
    > Thanks,
    >
    > Bob
    >
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    Hi Bob,

    although I´m not a programmer like some others here, I want to give you a statement
    about my experiences.
    Im using a AGFA snapscan 1236(s) with the encluded scsi-Adapter (AVA1505).
    After a hard time with installing it (mostly my faults, better should habe
    read the manualpages) I´m very happy with it now. The scans look really good
    and there were only a few hangs of the device while scanning.
    All problems could be solved by reinitialising the scsi-Adapter (reload the
    module by shell-script). I tried xsane and xscanimage and both are o.k. In my
    opinion the coloured preview in xsane is better than the grey one in
    xscanimage. I want to use both as a plug-in in gimp and hope this will be
    possible with xsane too.

    I hope this information will help you.

    Dirk

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