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Topic: Scanners; the bane of my Linux life

There's only one reason why I haven't completely ditched Windows. My 7 year-old flintlock of a HP Scanjet 4870C.

I've tried more than a few different Linux distro's over the years, and Xsane never has, and never will support this device. I use it once a month to make an image of the rent and utility check - that's it. But it works with Windows, and just as your mother told you it was a sin to waste food, I can't bring myself to throw away a good machine.

But today, like a wounded buffalo calling out to the rest of the herd, it made the "I'm dying here" crunch at the end of the scan cycle! [I don't know if buffaloes cry out to the rest of the herd - just something say on the Discovery channel]

So, can anyone recommend a good scanner, or multi-function machine, that runs well under CrunchBang? hmm

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Re: Scanners; the bane of my Linux life

If you want a multifunction, I can vouch for the Brother MFC-240C.

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Re: Scanners; the bane of my Linux life

My HP Deskjet F4280 works fine with both CrunchBang 9.04 and Statler a2.  You may need to add the hplip package; I seem to recall I couldn't get the scanner to work with just hpijs and cups.

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  • From: Wrocław, Poland
  • Registered: 2010-07-07
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Re: Scanners; the bane of my Linux life

HP Photosmart C4780, also wireless connection is working (didn't test scanner that way yet).

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  • From: London
  • Registered: 2009-07-19
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Re: Scanners; the bane of my Linux life

I have a Canon Pixma MP970 attached to my network and am able to scan over the network without any modifications. I simply use the following command:

scanimage --resolution 150 --device-name pixma:MP970_10.0.1.213

Printing to it is a bit harder as there are no drivers for this model, but I have it attached to a MacBook which acts as a print server. Printing to it via the Mac works great.

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  • From: Lost River Lake
  • Registered: 2009-02-19
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Re: Scanners; the bane of my Linux life

The inexpensive CanoScan Lide 25 flatbed scanner has worked without any problems out-of-the-box on Ubuntu, Debian and CrunchBang. Also I use the scanimage command, e.g. as follows:

scanimage --resolution 300 -x 215 -y 297 > scannedimage && convert scannedimage -rotate 90 scannedimage.jpg

"Convert" is one of ImageMagick's many commands.

Scanimage has many scanner specific commands. I haven't tried the scanner's "quick buttons" (or whatever they're called), even though they should work, too. I have not been able to scan over the home network via SSH, but I guess that is the only negative remark I can make.

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  • From: Birmingham UK
  • Registered: 2009-09-06
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Re: Scanners; the bane of my Linux life

Hi,
    I use a HP C3100 on CB (904) as scanner and printer and it has worked on every linux I've tried fine.

I don't know if they are still available but I've never had a problem with HP printers (wouldn't touch HP for anything else tho!)

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  • Registered: 2010-08-03
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Re: Scanners; the bane of my Linux life

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