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Any such thing as out of box/easy found driver Linux Scanner

Check here, if they list it as working that's about as easy as it gets.

»www.sane-project.org/

Well again I know of that but rather not go through a LOT of SIFTING/price checking.... was really looking for a basic recommendation for medium level quality (like 2400dpi standard page... legal might be nice... maybe with transp capability)/cost and overall functionallity compared to WIN/Mac.
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»haywardm.com (Hayward's Key West)

I found out Brother printers and scanners work pretty good with Linux. Brother has all the drivers on their site. I have a Brother scanner/printer/fax and have not had any problems. It didn't work "out of the box" however it only took the double click of a rpm file to install.

Did you have to search for that or supplied?
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»haywardm.com (Hayward's Key West)

I believe the driver was on the CD however I went to Brothers web site and search for "linux" and they had updated drivers so I used those. Go look around their site and pick out a printer and search for the driver. Here is their Linux page:
»solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/

Well again the postscript capable DELL Printer even the generic Color Laser Driver works quite well, again even some options that never did under WIN.... only thing really missing is the toner GAS GUAGE..

Issue at the moment is scanner.

I HATE all in one solutions (print/scan/fax).... FUP's loose everything. (As well as spec usually big compromise)
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»haywardm.com (Hayward's Key West)

reply to Hayward
For Linux support I've had great luck with Samsung Printers and Epson scanners...

Epson scanners generally offer the choices of open source and proprietary drivers...

Well here's the place to start looking...

»www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-EPSON

Of those models I personally own an Epson Perfection 1260 but I wouldn't hold my breath trying to find that particular model these days. Most likely discontinued...

Corss-referencing here »www.pricewatch.com/brands/scanne···on-1.htm the Perfection 4490 is listed as both available and completely supported...

My advice would be to snap one up before they're completely discontinued...

Whoops! that's the 4990 not the 4490 that's completely supported...

Anyway, cross reference the two pages and you're sure to find something that works for ya.

reply to Hayward
Canon LiDE 25
Cheap, functional, supported by SANE drivers.
»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···38111121

OOPS DP NM

reply to No_Strings
OK there is a check mark but would like something with basic transparancy capability too....

And this isn't exactly encouraging for ease of use

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Works fine in Linux, but only with the very latest plustek backend. You might have to recompile the sane-backends to get it working.

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Who are you going to believe, Hayward - some anonymous bonehead posting on the Internet or me?

Wait. Don't answer that.

The Canon and the one I had before it (a LiDE 10, I think) were essentially ready for use by plugging them in. I did have to set up a udev rule to keep from having to run XSane as root under Slackware.

No suggestions on transparency work.

On behalf of Anonymous Internet Boneheads Everywhere I'd just like to thank you with a huge THHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHPPPPPPPPPPTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!

BTW, what was going thru your parents' minds when they Christened you No_Strings?

I was responding to his quote of a user review in his research of the Canon I suggested. He should not have to recompile anything to get the scanner I suggested working.

If you started logging back in, you wouldn't need to be so defensive about posting anonymously.

reply to Hayward
I pretty confident in saying that any epson model that has the feature you want is going to work. In the past the only issues I ever ran into was the system throwing a fit because it didn't have the exact device usb id in it's list so it wouldn't allow the device 'user' access. Thank kernel people that protect you from evil usb devices for that one.

reply to Hayward
Are you stuck on a standalone scanner? I've had really good luck with just about all the all-in-one OfficeJets from HP. HP is pretty much Linux-friendly in this area. They even officially support Debian on some of their servers.

reply to No_Strings
SOMETHING by Canon is supported in Linux? I must be dreaming!
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