[hllug] Re: Scanner install
- From: herb cee <hc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: hllug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:28:11 -0600
Lee Parmeter wrote:
Herb:
As a general rule, Visioneer scanners are not supported on Linux, no
drivers are available.
http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-VISIONEER
On my way to Linux I had to discard my Visioneer 7600 for an Epson
Perfection 2400.
Both HP and Epson scanners have good support on Linux.
Some HP all-in-ones are also well supported. I recently bought my daughter
a cheap ($59 - Office Depot) HP Deskjet F4280 All-in-One Printer, Scanner,
Copier for her birthday. For Ubuntu 8.04.1 I had to download, and build the
latest hplip driver from HP's website, but it works perfectly. The printer
should work "out of the box" in Ubuntu 8.10.
http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html
-Lee
herb cee wrote:
Thanks a lot Lee I had shied from that page before so went back and
thought ya know i bought that Scanner cause it had good resolution and
32bit color but that was near 10yrs ago time for replacing anyway I
think or I could run it from the WinMe box I have hooked to the router
and run the scanner from there since a .jpg is pretty much a .jpeg both
also handle the other graphic files but I do like .jpg for final output
portability.
Anyway I think I will pass on getting that deep for now. I think I will
go with the on hand work-a-roun & fire up the winduh's box and finish my
current 'Holy Moses' project, I call it 'cloud art' based on cloud
formations of the NOAA sat .jpg's. Actually my fav lightweight photo
prog is MCI-II and it does not work in wine yet so I could also use that
prog to save time over the really good but complicated to operate Gimp,
Another + is the 'ol Wacom drawing pad is (as I remember) the cable
spliced into the mouse serial Ps2 port and it works on this Me box. I
just don't have enough cockpit time yet but it's fun.
Thanks agin bro
herb c
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