Scanner recommendations (and usb ports)

[Matthew Carpenter]

The HP ScanJet 4p I picked up years ago on clearance has worked great under SANE.  SuSE sets it up very simply and it works :)


On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 20:17:38 -0600
Alan Jackson <ajackson at oplnk.net> wrote:

> Well I'm in the market for a new scanner, so I'm seeking suggestions.
> 
> This is for home use, mostly for photos & such. I'd like 600 dpi, don't
> expect to need better than that. And of course it needs to run under Sane.
> Might want to do slides as well.
> 
> I just hooked up an old HP 3400C we had gotten, and it has one row with a
> bad sensor. 
> That in itself was an experience. My son had been running it on his Mandrake
> system, and when I moved it to my Gentoo system, it wouldn't work. I dug around
> a bit and found out that it wasn't supported. But how could it work for him?
> Finally I found a sourceforge project devoted to the HP scanners that had a
> patch for sane, which I applied, and now everything works. Mandrake must have
> applied that patch themselves.
> 
> I'd be completely happy, if it didn't have that one bad row... sigh.
> 
> While I'm asking about stuff, has anyone used those usb port expanders or
> whatever they are called? I've run out of usb ports...
> 
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