[Gllug] OT Scanners

[Rev Simon Rumble]

On Tue 13 Aug, will made the following spurious claims:

> I am going to buy a scanner so I can convert all my colour print photo's to 
> an online photo album and to preserve them.  I have looked on scan.co.uk 
> and they have a few, but I am looking for recommendations on scanners that 
> Gllug members might used and found to produce good results under Linux.  I 
> have a budget of about £150 and am looking for pretty good quality scans.  
> The interface can be parallel, SCSI, USB or magic as long as it works with 
> Linux (and preferably the Gimp).

I have an Epson Perfection 610U which is very good.  USB interface is
fast and setup was a breeze.  Epson are also "good guys" when it comes
to releasing specs and/or sponsoring free software development.
Imaging quality is excellent.

I think I picked it up for about sixty quid about a year ago at the
Saturday markets on TCR.

The main smoke-and-mirrors used by scanner marketing bods is the
difference between optical resolution and the resolution the thing is
capable of outputting.  Optical resolution is _REAL_ resolution: how
many pixels per inch can the thing image.  They use software
interpolation to increase this figure but you don't get something for
nothing.  Consider opening a 72 dpi image in Gimp and blowing it up to
twice its size and you'll get some idea of what "interpolated
resolution" looks like.

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Rev Simon Rumble <simon at rumble.net>
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