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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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