[sane-devel] DIN-A3 Scanners supported by SANE

[Andreas Piening]

Hi

Am Montag, den 03.01.2005, 23:30 +0100 schrieb Rene Rebe:
> Hi,
> 
> Andreas Piening wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> Well if you need a duo (aka. combo scan/print) device I think you'll not 
> find one from Avision - sorry ... :-(

What I mean is a standalone Printer and a standalone Scanner, both
connected to a standard linux-based computer.
The Printer can be any color-A3-laser and I only wanted to mention that
in the context.
The computer does everything like showing the touchscreen-gui,
communicating with scanner and printer and conversion to pdf, sending
per mail etc.
So I don't think of a standalone combo device. Sorry for the bad
wording.

> > But the price of the Avision @V5100 is not higher than the GT-30000, so
> > it is possible to hide the user-interface integrated in the Scanner and
> > use it as a "scanner-only" peripheral. If the sane support is better (I
> > think about the duplex unit) maybe this is a way.
> 
> I think the parallel output is not accessible from the host computer ... :-(

No, the parallel output is for connecting the scanner-system to a
parallel printer I think. The Avision @V5100 has an additional USB 2.0
(TWAIN) interface.

> > The Other thing is: Which interface to choose? I need to engineer the
> > fastest solution possible, so I think SCSI is the fastest, am I right?
> > Is the sane-backend so "abstract" that it can handle the scanner at
> > USB/SCSI/FireWire or no matter what, or do I need special support for
> > the interface?
> 
> USB 2.0 and Firewire are quite fast, too. Firewire has up to 400 or 800 
> MBit/s and USB 2.0 480MBit or so ...

True. I think USB2 is fast enough.

> Yours,
>