[sane-devel] Good office scanners with ADF support?

[Philip J. Hollenback]

On 06/02/05, Jens Gulden wrote:
> Philip J. Hollenback schrieb:
> >>My private scanner and printer is a Brother MFC 3420C
> >
> >However, I am a bit concerned by the reviews on the Amazon page for
> >this printer:
> >
> >http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000CA162/102-0416636-9700117?v=glance
> 
> There it says e.g.:
> >The self-clean feature is especially daunting if you have a home office. 
> >This creature's feature comes on whenever it takes a notion, so that 
> >sometimes when one least expects it - mid day or in the deep dark of night 
> >- the darned thing noisily turns itself on and beeps and whirs its way 
> >through self-cleaning and Will Not Be Deterred! HAL's cousin, perhaps? 
> >Reviewed by TundraVision, Amazon Reviewer. 
> 
> Yes, all true. Surely HAL's cousin :-). The first weeks I had the 
> MFC3420C standing in my sleeping-room, it woke me up about every third 
> night because it just had the idea of performing an auto-clean right at 
> 4:30 o'clock ("beep beep rrrrr mmmm sssssseeeeeppppp beep beep 
> rrrrrroaaarrr sip sip beeeeeep...")...
> This auto-cleaning "feature" is very annoying, I think its main purpose 
> is to use up ink and force you to buy another set of catridges every 
> couple of months. There is no way to configure this (at least I haven't 
> found documentation on that).
> The machine would even refuse to print black-and-white pages if one of 
> the color inks is empty, which is unnecessary and also very annoying. 
> But at least it will still scan with empty ink...
> 
> Anyway, I personally benefit a lot from the ADF, and my printing costs 
> are at least not higher than they were with my old HP-Deskjet...

So in your opinion if I just use this as a scanner with ADF it will
work great?  I really don't need another printer.

It won't stop working as a scanner if the ink cartridges run out, will
it?

Thanks,
P.

-- 
Philip J. Hollenback
Telemetry Investments
phollenback@telemetry-investments.com