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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!193.10.88.100!news00.sunet.se!sunic!mn6.swip.net!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!oleane!in2p3.fr!swidir.switch.ch!serra.unipi.it!labinfo.iet.unipi.it!luigi From: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Logitech Scanner Driver Date: 4 Jan 1997 11:16:30 GMT Organization: Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Univ. di Pisa Lines: 32 Distribution: world Message-ID: <5ale6e$19qa@serra.unipi.it> References: <59hhtp$k0n@nntp1.best.com> <5a18l1$df1@uriah.heep.sax.de> <32caf617.14991246@news.cc.purdue.edu> <32CBF198.41C67EA6@nortel.ca> <5ajsik$fnk@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: labinfo.iet.unipi.it Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33525 In article <5ajsik$fnk@uriah.heep.sax.de>, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: |> Andrew Atrens <atrens@nortel.ca> wrote: |> |> > Actually, I'm in the market for a hand scanner, too. I was considering |> > a scanman 2000. Apparently this model connects via parallel port (?) |> |> Handscanners are fairly messy. (I've got an older Genius one sitting |> beside my desk, but it's been a gift, so don't ask.) and considering that the cheapest flatbed scanners are now available for about US$300 I would think twice before buying a hand scanner. I have used two hand scanners (manufactured by Mustek, but sold by Trust), and have written FreeBSD drivers for them. It is quite hard to scan things moving the unit reasonably straight, and color units must be moved unacceptably slow since they have so many data to send, usually across a serial wire. Not to mention the difficulty in putting slices together, and the incredibly bad quality of the supplied drivers/application programs under Windows. The BW unit is usable for scanning text at 400 true dpi, B/W only; too bad it is not available any more (perhaps it was too cheap ?). The color unit, max 200dpi (true resolution, it claims 400 but they are interpolated) is totally unusable for text. Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________