flatbed scanner?

[Amadeus W.M.]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:24:46 -0500, Bradley Pursley wrote:

> 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.
>>   
> This may not be what you're asking for but I am using a Brother MFC and
> Brother has very good Linux support on seemingly most of their products
> including their own drivers for Linux. I was able to download and
> successfully use their drivers for printing, scanning and faxing.
> 
> If you want to check out what products they have Linux support for, you
> can try this Link:
> 
> http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/index.html
> 
> Bradley

I confirm. I have a Brother MFC DCP-130 (usb) and works out of the box 
with the manufacturer drivers and config files. Inexpensive, but ok for 
documents.