Re: recommendations on Linux friendly scanners?

The Natural Philosopher :
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.

I was forced to use it years past for my laser printer before PCL5
really worked, and I tend to print documents quite a bit larger than
2000 words. It did the job, somewhat like Java does the job.

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