[sane-devel] Low priced (ADF) scanner with at least 4PPM?

Olaf Meeuwissen olaf.meeuwissen at avasys.jp
Mon Jul 24 00:20:00 UTC 2006


"Felix E. Klee" <felix.klee at inka.de> writes:

> Thanks for pointing that out.  OTOH, Epson is AFAIK also a company that
> supports SANE quite well.  So, I may eventually go with the EPSON 4490
> Office: Although its slow, at least - I presume - one doesn't have to
> worry about scan quality.  That's not so important for documents, but
> for the occasional photo it could be an argument.  It also supports
> scanning medium format slides, which makes it even more interesting.
>
> In the mean time I found out that the EPSON 4490 is supported by SANE:
>
>   http://www.avasys.jp/
>
> However, I wonder: Would the ADF for the EPSON 4490 most likely work out
> of the box with SANE?

The ADF should be supported out of the box (assuming you use our RPMs,
that is).  BTW, our backend does NOT support scanning at resolutions
larger than 3200dpi.

Hope this helps,
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