said deloptes via tde-users: | dep via tde-users wrote: | > The desire to get work done, in reasonably high quality. When I scan, | > I generally need to do a substantial number of scans -- say 900 | > negatives in both 35mm and 2 1/4 -- so establishing a workflow is | > important. Using xsane is certainly possible. So would be writing a | > book in KEdit or heaven help us, Kate. | | but at the end in the linux world, you usually first do some research | which device is supported and buy the best one from the list. Otherwise | it is impossible.
True, unless they provide their own software. When I got my first scanner, also an Epson, there was no software support for much of anything. So I ran the provided Windows application in a virtual machine. Then Epson made iscan, which was a huge pain -- took half an hour to get the scanner recognized and running. So I kept a basket of stuff that I wanted to scan, and when I had something that I needed *today,* I'd take a day and scan it all. Though when I was doing serious work, slides and valuable negatives, I'd still fire up the Windows vm. I still have that vm here, though I haven't used it in a long time. But I keep it because sometimes I have to do things on deadline often, and until now I haven't really trusted Linux/SANE. Plus, the GUIs were pretty awful, which I've decided Skanlite isn't. Wonder what non-lite Skan would be like.
| When I did the research about scanners might be 10+y ago I found out | that very few devices are supported without issues, especially such, | that I can put underneath of the desk. More problematic as usual are the | cheaper USB devices.
That's why I went the Epson route. That and the fact that on the box it said it had Linux support. This is my second one; the first one seemed to have died. Only a couple months ago I realized that its power supply had gone, four years after I got the new one. So I have a spare, because they use the same power supply. Which I could replace for $25 or so.