Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 22:56:26 -0700 From: "Charles Burns" <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com> To: mprice@atl.lmco.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Purchasing a scanner - need advice. Message-ID: <F73Fjm0fwYdka0fIQTr0000bd22@hotmail.com>
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>I was thinking about picking up a 1200 dpi flatbed scanner for use with a >FreeBSD machine and wanted to check with the group to see if anyone had >some >advice as to which one I should purchase. Any advice is appreciated. Price >isn't as much of a consideration as everything working correctly. > >Michael Some tips: 1) 1200DPI is needed if you want to make a life-size picture of a guy on a postage stamp. Otherwise, 300DPI is just fine. (I have a 1200DPI scanner and rarely scan at about 150) An 8.5*11" picture@32 bit color is around 400MB as well. 2) HP and Umax both make good scanners (Other companies do as well I am sure but I haven't used them). HP has rediculously good support. Not sure how they maintain a profit. -Avoid Visioneer- (I have stories for both HP and Visioneer if anyone cares) 3) I have no idea which scanners are compatible with FreeBSD as I use FreeBSD for servers (i.e. without scanners), but you are probably better off with a SCSI or parallel port scanner than a USB scanner. Hope this helps. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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