[H-GEN] Linux and scanners, Canon surported?

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> > My roomate has a Canon CanoScan N676U that he got a few weeks back, it's
> > small, bus powerd, very good overall(I don't use scanners much so I'm
> > prolly not a good judge). So I flinched it from his room to play with it
> ..
> >
> > And it's surported under Linux!
> > http://www.gjaeger.de/scanner/plustek.html
>
> Yeah, I didn't bother to mention this.  The support for them was still very
> dodgy last time I tried (Canon N650U, about a month ago) and the images I
> got looked bloody terrible compared to what the windows drivers produce.  I
> think it was only giving out 8 bit colour.  I will probably try it out again
> from time to time and see how it goes.

Got everything working..

Well, the images STILL look like they could do with some work, I'm not
using the very latest drivers and/or I could be using wrong settings..
It's got lots of very fine verticle lines, apart from that, it seems to do
a good job of handling things.. We will see how things go.. Give them a
few more months. :)


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