Scanners

[Collins]

My wife's scanner software  (old UMAX 610P) is ailing - looks like
another #$@! Win98 reinstall to cure it, so I'm starting to look at
the possibility of another el cheapo scanner for my linux system,
preferably a USB model, since I have no scsi card in this box.  Does
anyone have recommendations?

I've just started to look at the SANE database.  The only problem is
that most of the USB scanners that are listed as stable aren't the
current vendor offerings.  SANE supports a few parallel port boxes,
but not the 610P.  As a side note, the 610P is dead for WinXP as well,
because Bill's gang won't release the driver interface specs to allow
UMAX to rework the driver!

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Collins Richey - Denver Area
Gentoo 1.4 sytem