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Re: Flatbed Scanner



 Laura Conrad wrote: 
> My flatbed scanner died a couple of weeks ago.  (A Cannon LIDE 
> something or other.  It was cheap, but shouldn't have died after that 
> few years of light use.) 
> 
> So I used the tax holiday to get a new one at Microcenter yesterday. 
> It's an Epson Perfection V200 Photo scanner.  It's working now, after 
> downloading drivers and fiddling with permission files and lots of 
> googling.  But it only gives me the choice of three resolutions: 300, 
> 2400 and 4800.   
> 
> I find 300 is too coarse for scanning music, so on the old scanner I 
> was using 600.  2400 is probably overkill, and is taking an awfully 
> long time per page. 
> 
> Does anyone have an idea of what to do with this scanner, or a 
> recommendation for a different scanner that works better with LINUX? 
> 
> I suppose another possibility is buying more memory.  I have 1G, and 
> could upgrade this machine to 2G. 
> 


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