Re: recommendations on Linux friendly scanners?

Handover Phist wrote:
The Natural Philosopher :
Todd wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote:

SANE is crap really - weakest link in the Linux armour.
Like the "Common Unix Printing System" (CUPS), I refer to
SANE as the "Common Unix Scanning System" or CUSS. Sort
speaks for itself. :-)

-T
Ive found CUPS a BIT better.

The trouble is both scanners and printers tend to rely on custom drivers from the manufactures: They don't do linux ones, much.

Scanners, however, don't have a Postscript equivalent. Many printers
will use it even if no driver is supplied.


Oh yes. Spawn of the devil

postcript.. 'The language that put a 64 bit processor in a printer, long before a computer' and 'a way to turn 2000 words of text into a few megabytes of data'

Do you know, its really only since computers have got as good as they are in the last 3-5 years, that it has actually been useable from my point of view.
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