[sane-devel] Document scanner, hardware recommendations.

[m. allan noah]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Johannes Groedem <johs at netfonds.no> wrote:
> * "m. allan noah" <kitno455 at gmail.com>:
>> I am very, very happy with the Fujitsu fi-6130. Fast, quiet, small,
>> reversed roller system prevents jams, very well supported in SANE CVS
>> version. Not cheap, but less than your HP :) If your needs are a
>> little less, you might be able to find the previous model (fi-5120C)
>> around on clearance or refurbished. It's not as good as the 6130, but
>> still a nice machine. Others like the Avision AV220 (which is also
>> available under other brand names: Kodak, Visioneer, etc), but I've
>> only used one of those briefly. You might try searching the mailing
>> list...
>
> Thank you for your swift answer.  I forgot to mention that I need a
> combined document feeder/flatbed-scanner, though, so that particular
> model won't work, regrettably.  Can I ask how many seconds it takes,
> approximately, to scan a color page?  (Manufacturers have an annoying
> tendency to only specify some kind of theoretical max PPM instead of
> expected average PPM at some reasonable setting.)

So how about the fi-6230 :)

http://www.fujitsu.com/global/services/computing/peripheral/scanners/product/fi6230/

It performs as advertised- 30ppm color at 300dpi.

allan
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