[CLUE-Tech] scanner recommendations

[Jim Ockers]

Hi Jeff,

> I would like to scan photos into my ever-increasing digital picture archive.   
> I appreciate any suggestions on scanners, running on Linux.  This is not 
> professional art, btw so cheap and effective will suffice.

I have an HP PSC2175cxi (or some such model) that works fine with the
hpoj Linux driver.  It's USB and was cheap.  You also get a color
printer, copier, and flash memory card reader in which the memory
card shows up as /dev/sda.

I use xsane and RHEL 3 WS.  I had to update the hpoj driver that comes
with Red Hat EL3-WS but once I figured that out, it wasn't too hard to 
get it to work.

I never used to believe in multifunction printer/scanner devices but
the price point, quality, and driver made this one worthwhile for me.

YMMV of course.

HTH,
Jim

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