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Re: Canon LIDE-90 scanner



On 12 Feb at 8:35 Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk> wrote in message
<[🔎] 20080212083535.GI1528@acampbell.org.uk>

> On 11 Feb 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 12:06:58PM -0500, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote:
> > > Does any one know if it is supprted under Linux?
>> 
> > What does google say?  Check the sane website.
>> 
> > Doug.
>
>
> I'm pretty sure it isn't. Recently I was looking into scanners that work
> on Linux and as far as I can see there are now none such, at least in the
> medium price range. The Canoscan Lide 25 is reported to work but has bad
> reviews. I'm just hoping my Epson Perfection 1650 goes on working.
> Apparently flatbed scanners are no longer  being made - I don't know why.

No longer cost-effective. People are buying combined scanner-printers at a
price similar to what each seperate device would cost on its own a couple of
years ago.

I'm just waiting for either my scanner or printer to die, so that I can
justify buying one of those nice HP C6200 units...

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Tony van der Hoff        | mailto:tony@vanderhoff.org
Buckinghamshire, England 


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