[sane-devel] Document scanner, hardware recommendations.

Simon Matter simon.matter at invoca.ch
Thu Feb 19 15:46:44 UTC 2009


> * "m. allan noah" <kitno455 at gmail.com>:
>>> It's close enough for me.  Who knows how they measure these things.
>>> My measurement was "time scanadf", basically.  It was done actually
>>> feeding the papers through the scanner before scanadf exited, so
>>> it's not entirely unimaginable that there is a bit of overhead in
>>> actually transferring and writing the scans to disk.
>> I wonder how fast it will go if you enable jpeg compression? You
>> might need updated scanadf (or the scanimage that comes with
>> sane-backends cvs)
>
> About the same as uncompressed PNM.  (Also tried 200 DPI now, with no
> noticeable difference in speed from 300 DPI.)
>
> The computer I'm testing this on is a Core 2 E8500 3.16GHz, by the
> way.

I understand that the 6240 is similar to the 6230 but faster and with SCSI
interface. I guess it might make a difference when connecting it via SCSI
instead of USB. How is your connected?

Simon




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