Re: Newbie question: High-speed scanners?

From: Ajay Shekhawat (ajay@cedar.buffalo.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 19 2001 - 12:18:35 PDT

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    On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 10:02:39PM -0400, Tom Martone wrote:
    >
    > Greetings,
    >
    > The Bell+Howell driver supports the Copiscan II model 6338 which
    > is rated at 42-50ppm at 200/240/300dpi. There's preliminary support
    > for the 8000 series which have higher ratings (model 8080 65-80ppm,
    > thru model 8125 100-125ppm at 200-400dpi). These are bilevel only,
    > as far as I know. The 6338 is a duplex scanner and the 8000's are
    > available as simplex or duplex.
    >
    > The installation that I'm working with has a 6338 and a 2137 and we
    > have scanned over a million pages since November 1999. We should have
    > a party :)
    >
    > The bh driver is in CVS and will be part of the next SANE release.
    >
    > Tom Martone

    Tom,
    Isn't the case that the B+H scanners will do bilevel only in SCSI, whereas
    their own proprietary "video" interface will do greyscale? Do you know if
    someone has a driver for their "video" interface under Linux?

    Thanks,

    Ajay

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