Getting scanners to work with Linux
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To be honest, there are a number of scanners that will work with Linux. The challenge can be making sure that you check things out first, before buying a new one. It sucks to have to make multiple exchanges just to get scanners to work, but it happens.
More than a few Linux users have become upset because they have trouble making scanners work properly with their systems. Most of the time, however, “the fault doesn’t lie with Linux,” writes DesktopLinux.com columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols.
Instead, “it’s the eternal problem of hardware vendors neither supplying drivers nor the information developers need to write drivers,” he continues.
Some companies, like Epson, offer a great deal of support for Linux, while others, like Canon, offer little or no support. [Read the rest]