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<title>sane-devel: Re: Scanner Purchase Advice short list</title>
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<h1>Re: Scanner Purchase Advice short list</h1>
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<b>Andreas Dilger</b> (<a href="mailto:adilger@enel.ucalgary.ca"><i>adilger@enel.ucalgary.ca</i></a>)<br>
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<i>Tue, 5 Jan 1999 22:47:06 -0700 (MST)</i>
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<li> <b>Next message:</b> <a href="0092.html">Andreas Dilger: "Re: (FAQ) SANE Support of Parallel Port Scanners"</a>
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Jeffery Perry writes:<br>
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<i>> 2) UMAX Astra 1200S or 1220S</i><br>
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<i>> </i><br>
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<i>> This model has had extremly poor support from the US support</i><br>
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<i>> office lately and the company apparently initially lied about a current</i><br>
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<i>> problem with the ROM. US office has decided not to fix it</i><br>
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<i>> UK office is shipping upgrade roms or replacing it if you</i><br>
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<i>> ship scanner.</i><br>
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<i>> </i><br>
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<i>> Q: I believe I understand that the ROM is only an issue</i><br>
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<i>> if you upgrade to a newer version of their TWAIN drivers</i><br>
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<i>> or other shipped software. Am I correct? I am a bit fuzzy</i><br>
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<i>> on this. The problem is that bw scans stop working apparently</i><br>
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<i>> and this makes it useless for OCR unless you buy color OCR software.</i><br>
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Never heard of this problem, never had it myself, although I don't use<br>
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the line art mode at all. Even so, you could always do color or grayscale<br>
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scans and do the thresholding afterwards...<br>
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<i>> Q: Confirm: The card it ships with is 25 pin SCSI so I will need</i><br>
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<i>> some convertors</i><br>
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Mine came with a useless SCSI card. The connector on the scanner and card<br>
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are both 25-pin D shell. I got a 25-50 SCSI cable for about $15 to connect<br>
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to my AHA 1542CF card (which also has all my internal disks on it. No<br>
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problems so far. The cable is often called a "Mac SCSI cable" and can be<br>
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had for relatively cheap. If you don't already have a SCSI card, the<br>
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Future Domain 830 card (and probably others in the family) have an external<br>
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25 D connector on them, and I just got one for $15 at a surplus store.<br>
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<i>> Q: Comes with SCSI terminator? Needs one? Built-in?</i><br>
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Yes, it includes a 25D terminator for the second port on the scanner.<br>
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<i>> Other drawbacks/inconveniences: </i><br>
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<i>> - No on/off switch</i><br>
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True, but the lamp turns itself off after a while...<br>
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<i>> - lid hinge may snap if raised to too great an angle</i><br>
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Don't do that<br>
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<i>> - bad docs but good web troubleshooting guide</i><br>
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Never used em, since they don't mention Linux at all anyways...<br>
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<i>> - lock/unlock switch needs to be in middle for proper operation</i><br>
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never had that problem<br>
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Cheers, Andreas<br>
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Andreas Dilger University of Calgary \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and
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