On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 11:43:51AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > OK, I admit it, I gave in to the dark side. A couple of months ago I > decided that "SANE" stood for "Scanner Access Not Easy" and that [...] Huh, I bought a cheap HP all-in-one a while ago, and found SANE more or less "just worked" with it. Had to spend a little more effort trying to figure out which app had a suitable UI (I think I ended up using one of the KDE ones), but otherwise it was pretty easy, if not perfectly smooth plug&play. OTOH, I haven't tried either an automatic feeder of any sort, nor any slide scanning. > 1. If I accept the refund, I have to go and find another scanner and > go through the pain of installing either the Microsoft-based stuff > that they supply (and who knows if it will be any better), or > SANE, which in the past I have found a real pain. If you can find some stores that have scanners out of the box and on display, you could bring a long a laptop and try out their SANE support before buying; presuming your problems with SANE are scanner-specific rather than more general anyway. > I'd be interested in any kind of discussion, including ideas on what > to replace the scanner with. AFAIK, HP make a point of supporting SANE, fwiw. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> Don't assume I speak for anyone but myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``Like the ski resort of girls looking for husbands and husbands looking for girls, the situation is not as symmetrical as it might seem.''
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