From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 17 13:25:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 010EF16A4CE for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 13:25:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (blackend.org [212.11.35.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 349D043D5D for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 13:25:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i7HDPpM1039802; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 15:25:52 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@abigail.blackend.org) Received: (from marc@localhost) by abigail.blackend.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i7HDPpP5039801; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 15:25:51 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc) Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 15:25:51 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille To: Charles Ulrich Message-ID: <20040817132551.GD38060@abigail.blackend.org> References: <411E9639.2070609@spintech.ro> <8cb27cbf0408152126257ec1bc@mail.gmail.com> <49165.207.179.91.96.1092745020.squirrel@freedombi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49165.207.179.91.96.1092745020.squirrel@freedombi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Useless-Header: blackend.org X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.10-PRERELEASE cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD scanners X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 13:25:54 -0000 On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 08:17:00AM -0400, Charles Ulrich wrote: > wrote: > > Please, if any of you has confident experience with any of the following > > scanners under FreeBSD, please let me know. I must find something available > > for buying and it must work smoothly in FreeBSD (otherwise there's no point > > of buying a new scanner, as I already have one which is not working in > > anything else but Windows..) > > > > EPSON perfection 1670 > > EPSON perfection 1670 Photo > > A little tip: check out Epison's Clearance Center on their website if you're > in the market for one of their scanners. I secured a Perfection 1660 Photo for > half the price of a brand-new 1670. (Except for the chipset inside, the 1660 > and 1670 seem to be identical in every way.) > > Haven't quite gotten it working with FreeBSD and SANE but that's due more to a > lack of time to figure out exactly why SANE can't see the scanner on the bus. > A quick read of ttp://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/scanners.html will give you the answer :) Marc