[svlug] Scanner for Linux

[Jacob Hunter]

Let me let you into my story behind this a little more...
When I used to work at Circuit City, a while back, I was still
a MS W****** person... therefore, i bought whatever was popular..
i ended up spending about $800 for a printer / scanner / copier 
(the HP PSC 500) and I have only got the printer to work in mono mode
and the scanner there isnt a chance in hell it will work.  I was unable
to find any driver, let alone compatible (I can only use the HP500C
driver in mono) drivers.  So now, i called my old manager, and even though
they dont return things over 30 days, theyre going to give me a store credit.

I want to decide what to do with that store credit, rather what the right 
thing to do is.  I want something that will work and is a quality product.

Actually i did just find a driver at : http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/download.shtml

but im not even sure i still want this printer...




> begin  Jacob Hunter quotation:
> 
> > Anyone know of a parallel port scanner that works with Linux?
> 
> By the way, why a parallel-port scanner?  Parallel ports are slow and
> only somewhat standardised.  They also pose significant driver problems.
> 

Because I don't have a SCSI card.

> If I needed a scanner, I'd get one of the decent flatbed SCSI models.
> Possibly one of the older HP ScanJets (because I'm cheap).
> 

Well since I don't have a SCSI card, i would end up buying one of those
scanners bundled with a SCSI card.  And are those cards usually that great
let alone compatible w/ Linux?

> Quite a lot of people come into Linux community forums and ask "How do I
> do foo?", where foo is something that experienced users would carefully 
> avoid trying to do.  The community will most often respond to the
> question literally as posed, while wondering quietly to themselves why
> anyone would _want_ to do such a demented thing.  So, watch out what you
> ask about; you might get the answer to exactly what you asked, instead
> of the answer you need.

I agree...  I am guilty of that frequently

> 
> > Also what InkJets that are currently on the market do you recomend?
> 
> I really meant to recommend a specific page, before.  So:
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/suggested.html
> 

The page is very helpful


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