flatbed scanner?

[John Austin]

On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 14:50 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 12:49 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > The last time I got a new scanner I spent about a week
> > correlating the lists of scanners actually available for
> > purchase with the list of supported devices on the sane
> > web pages (99.999% of which are models that are out of
> > production :-).
> > 
> > Has anyone recently purchased a flatbed scanner with good
> > linux support? (I mostly want it for documents and such,
> > not photo or negative scanning).
> > 
> > The Canoscan LIDE 60 I wound up with at the end of the first
> > painful search has apparently died the real death. It doesn't
> > show up as a USB device at all. If it had a fuse, I'd say
> > it had blown it :-). Naturally they are up to LIDE 90 now
> > (60 no longer made), and the 90 isn't supported in sane.
> 
> I've had good results with an HP office scanner. Sorry I don't remember
> the model since I now use a multifunction (also HP). If you download the
> hplip package it has a list of supported models in the documentation.
> 
> poc
> 

I needed A3 and Mustek Scanexpress A3 USB work Ok

John