FreeBSD scanners

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Thursday, 19 August 2004 at 15:52:54 +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 10:01:07AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>>
>> Interesting.  I've just had a very bad experience with Canon's
>> scanners.  See
>> http://wwww.lemis.com/grog/product-reviews/Canon-breakage.html for the
>> whole sad story.
>>
>
> Unfortunately, I'm not surprised.  Since USB is the scanners "standard"
> interface, I noted more and more "bad" scanners: bad/weak GUI
> (for example the GUI coming with some EPSON Perfection scanners is the
> worst I ever used), bad performance, cheap/buggy hardware.

I think that the real issue is the fact that people tend to consider
the hardware and software as integral.  The Canon hardware is
terrible.  The Canon GUI is, well, a GUI.  It's also broken.

Greg
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